The left-leaning FMLN, currently in control of the presidency and the victor in this year’s election, developed out of a rebel group at the end of El Salvador’s civil war in 1992.

In response to a dramatic rise in the homicide rate, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) government in El Salvador has imposed greater militarization in the streets and a state ...

El Salvador runoff election: Why an FMLN win wouldn't mean bigger shift to the left Polls show the FMLN is a shoo-in for the presidency.

SAN SALVADOR – El Salvador’s presidential candidate for the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), Mauricio Funes, presented his party’s national government plan this week calling ...

With 63 percent of all eligible voters turning out to the polls in El Salvador’s presidential elections on Feb. 2, former guerilla commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren of the Farabundo Marti ...

El Salvador’s FMLN wobbles, but doesn’t fall down Despite ARENA’s advance in the Legislative Assembly, no party has a simple majority.

El Salvador’s chapter in the history of the alliance illustrates how funding for PdVSA fossil fuel imports was used to expand the economic and political power of the Farabundo Martí National ...

El Salvador's attorney general has opened an investigation to determine whether José Luis Merino, one of the three chief leaders of the ruling FMLN party, is involved in drug and weapons trafficking.

A moderate former journalist has brought his left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party of former guerillas to power for the first time since the end of El Salvador's brutal ...

Presidential candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren, of the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), speaks during a press conference one day after a presidential runoff election in San ...

OAS condemns El Salvador shooting of FMLN supporters 02/02/2021 Widespread condemnation has ensued after the shooting of supporters of opposition party FMLN resulted in two fatalities.

After a rally last Sunday night in the campaign for this month’s legislative and mayoral elections in El Salvador, gunmen attacked a Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) truck ...