Joaquin Villalobos

Desarme del FMLN? Paz en El Salvador: Aceptar la Realidad y Convertirla en Acuerdo [FMLN Disarmament, peace process]

np: np, 1991. Offset. Stapled at top left corner. 8 ½ x 11 in. Printed to rectos only, with a CISPES development letter on verso of first four leaves. 11 pp. Very good. Item #10518

A rare Spanish-language essay by Joaquin Villalobos, the Marxist guerilla leader and militant Salvadorian revolutionary, focused on the realities required for peace in El Salvador a year before the accords before the FMLN and the government.

Villalobos was a highly successful guerilla commander and political negotiator, and significant leader in the FMLN, the vast liberation front that fought against a US-backed military-dominated right-wing government. He was notorious, however, for having executed the famous guerilla poet Roque Dalton, who fought alongside the ERP, under the suspicion that Dalton was a CIA asset. Nonetheless, this publication sees Villalobos wielding the word as an olive branch, considering disarmament, and preparing the ground for the peace agreement signed a year later in 1992. In the next decade Villalobos would move to the right-wing and become a security advisor for various countries. The first four leaves of this pamphlet reproduce a development letter from CISPES, the active American solidarity organization of the FMLN, suggesting this was likely printed or transcribed in the U.S., or by American activists in El Salvador.

We find no record of this essay being produced as an independent pamphlet, and it is unrecorded in OCLC as of  March 2026. A rare document of Salvadorian resistance at the time just before disarmament.

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