Ana María, born Mélida Anaya Montes (17 May 1929 - 6 April 1983) was a leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the Salvadoran Civil War.
Biography[]
Ana María was born on 17 May 1929 in Santiago Texacuangos, El Salvador. She was a professor at the University of El Salvador in the 1960s and led the 1968 and 1971 professors' strikes against President Fidel Sanchez Hernandez's government, and she joined the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). Along with Cayetano Carpio, she was in favor of talks with the government during the Salvadoran Civil War, so on 6 April 1983 she was killed in Managua, Nicaragua by FMLN assassins with an icepick to make it look like it was a far-right attack. However, the Nicaraguan government arrested the assassins, who were identified as FMLN members. Carpio, whom the FMLN blamed for her death, later killed himself.