Ana Maria (
17 May 1929 -
6 April 1983) was the "
nom de guerre" of Mélida Anaya Montes, the second in command of the
FMLN, in
El Salvador.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, after having made many sacrifices during her life as a guerrilla.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.
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