FMLN statement
1984 1984-03Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 12 →
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Salvador Cayetano Carpio, Marcial, caused temporary damage to the process of the unity of all the Salvadoran revolutionary forces in the FMLN. His corrosive sectarianism even transcended the borders of our country, affecting the cohesion and confidence of the international solidarity movement toward our struggle. But the maturity of the leaders of all our organizations, including the other leaders of the FPL, made it possible for the FMLN to preserve its unity, which is the primary element for the advancement and victory of the Salvadoran revolution....
The murder of Ana Maria, committed under his orders, and his subsequent cowardly suicide were desperate acts at the moment of his political and moral isolation and defeat. The last lines he wrote before taking his life were his final attempt to embitter the revolutionary ranks, to sow lack of confidence and confusion among them. But he failed this attempt as well....
Only a small group, contaminated by fanaticism, remained confused. Today, they turn up, scattered in various countries, raising the name of Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and are linked to the emergence of the so-called Revolutionary Workers Movement (MOR). There are some equally fanatical individuals who are enemies of unity and will try to channel economic aid from brother peoples toward the MOR so that it can survive.
12 Socialist Action March 1984 It will not take long for the CIA to ‹ iress in sheep's clothing and use its mone 'y to give a shot of oxygen to this group, and its existence will permit the CIA to step up its propaganda about a supposed split in the FMLN....
We categorically assert that in El Salvador there are not and cannot be revolutionaries outside of or against the FMLN, precisely because under its leadership the revolution is advancing and winning.
Anyone who truly wants the victory of the revolution must not cast aspersions on the FMLN, but rather must aid it, or that person is not a revolutionary....
If the enemy of our forces should detect any divisions among us, it will only be a division of labor and combat missions in order to insure that the forceful and crushing blows that await them have the greatest possible coordination, cohesion, effectiveness and scope.
Higher forms of unity are being worked out in the FMLN. Little by little the reasons for the existence of different organizations are disappearing. The eagerly awaited objective of integrating all revolutionaries into a single party is already clearly looming on the victorious horizon toward which we are marching.
Unity in the fight, until final victory!
Signed by six commanders of the FMLN on Dec. 16, 1983