Alfredo Cristiani

president of El Salvador

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Duarte

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

  • In Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

    Alfredo Cristiani’s loss of faith in the army’s capacity to defeat the FMLN strengthened the president’s commitment to reaching a negotiated settlement with the group. The United Nations-brokered Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed by the Salvadoran government and the FMLN on January 16, 1992, in…

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history of El Salvador

  • El Salvador
    In El Salvador: Civil war

    …victory of the Arena candidate, Alfredo Cristiani, in the 1989 presidential election. Duarte died of stomach cancer shortly after Cristiani’s inauguration.

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