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Salvador S nchez Cer n, better known by his nom de guerre Comandante Leonel Gonz lez, was elected El Salvador's vice president for the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Mart de Liberaci n Nacional) in the closely-contested March 2009 elections.

In this updated and expanded edition (the first edition sold out in less than one year), the author relates his life journey--from teaching in a poor village, to his decision to take up arms to pursue his humanist and revolutionary cause, to his key role in the negotiations that brought peace (if not social justice), to his strife-torn Central American homeland.

About the Author

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Leonel Gonzalez was a founding member of the FMLN as a key leader of the iberation front formed in 1980, inspired by the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua in 1979. He played a leading role in the peace negotiations that led to the 1992 accords. He heads the FMLN parliamentary caucus and was elected Vice-President in March 2009.