Several political parties fighting against one another to gain respect and power in El Salvador.
-The national democratic organization: A peasant group organized by the President Molina to act as the security of El Salvado. In Things Fall Apart, they are known as the guerilla.
-The actual military: The El Salvador military that has been in power majority of the nation's history.
-People's revolutionary army and Farabundo Marti popular liberation forces: Revolutionary groups that wanted a new radical change in government.
-Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front: Embraced Marxist communist values; agreed and fully supported Cuba's and the Soviet's policies.
-Christian Base Communities: Fought for a Christian Roman Catholic based government.
-Revolutionary Popular Bloc: Constiuent peasant that held 60,000 members group that protested for a democratic people based government.
-Anti-Communist Liberation Armed Forces: Manifestly didn't like communism just as the previous government didn't.

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