CIA murders Ana Maria | Socialist Action 1983

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union and Labour Party Montes ('Ana Maria'), a leader of the Salvadorean FMLN, was murdered at her home in Managua last Wednesday. Her assassins were a threeman commando dressed in black.

According to the pathologists report she was struck 82 times with an icepick, , her arm was and her throat was slit.

Ana Maria was, next to Cayetano Carpio, the FPL largest of the tions in the Miranisa- revolutionary She was buried last Saturday in Managua at a ceremony attended by the whole of the Sandinista leadership.

Ana Maria lived in exile in Nicaragua, while spending much her time in political work il other countries.

The area in which she lived was heavily ed. Without doubt the three men who assassinated her were trained experts - either Americans Centra the CIA.

Her brutal killing is typical of the methods of the reacHollary forces in region.

statement the FMLN said:

"Although repression of Salvadorean opposition leaders tander Ana Maria is an murder Com indication of the US plans to increase a selective repression agains our leaders as a way to contain the great popular advances towards liberation'.