The Nationalist Republican Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Republicana Nacionalista or ARENA) is a conservativepolitical party in El Salvador. It was founded on September 30, 1981 by Roberto D'Aubuisson in order to oppose the reformist military junta that was ruling El Salvador at the time. Though D'Aubisson is best known for his suspected involvement in very many death squad murders, as was the ARENA of his time, in the peaceful post-civil war environment, the party functions with complete legitimacy as a normal right-wing party, in the same way that the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the former guerrilla group, known for opposing the government killing of thousands of civilians during the Salvadoran Civil War, is now the main opposition party in the country. The party has controlled the presidency continuously since 1989.
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