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Ana Maria, Combatiente De La Vida: Melida Anaya Montes: Salvadorena, Maestra, Guerrillera (Paperback) ; Publisher: Ocean Press ; ISBN: ; Number of..
Its headquarters were ransacked, all its files and records confiscated, the General Sec- retary, Dr Melida Anaya Montes, imprisoned along with the Treasurer.
Ana María
Salvadoran revolutionary (1929–1983)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Anaya and the second or maternal family name is Montes.
Ana María (17 May 1929 – 6 April 1983) was the nom-de-guerre of Dr.Mélida Anaya Montes, the second in command of the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL), the oldest of the five guerrilla organizations making up the FMLN, in El Salvador.[1]
An intellectual, she was considered as an icon among revolutionary women in the region.
Eventually she was killed by her own comrades on April 6, 1983, in Managua, Nicaragua.
Later, the FMLN blamed its leader Cayetano Carpio (sometimes referred to as the "Ho Chi Minh of Latin America") as the person responsible for the crime, and he committed suicide.
Though he was not in Nicaragua at the time, many believe his stance created a situation that led Ana María's associates to assassinate her.
Early life
She was born in the small town of