Salvadoran social democratic politician Guillermo Manuel Ungo (1931-1991) listens to a question from a journalist during a press conference in Managua, Nicaragua, November 1, 1983. Ungo was a member of El Salvador's governing junta from 1979 to 1980 along with Rubén Zamora. While in exile from the years 1980 to 1987, Ungo and Zamora founded various leftist political parties including the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR, joining the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, to form a unified opposition to the Salvadoran state regime. The FDR-FMLN would engage in peace talks with the government and their U.S. advisors intermittently throughout the country’s twelve-year civil war.
Salvadoran social democratic politician Rubén Zamora listens to a question from a journalist during a press conference in Managua, Nicaragua, November 1, 1983. Zamora was a member of El Salvador's governing junta from 1979 to 1980 along with Guillermo Manuel Ungo. While in exile from the years 1980 to 1987, Ungo and Zamora founded various leftist political parties including the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR, joining the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, to form a unified opposition to the Salvadoran state regime. The FDR-FMLN would engage in peace talks with the government and their U.S. advisors intermittently throughout the country’s twelve-year civil war.