Salvador Cayetano Carpio

Salvador Cayetano Carpio

Salvador Cayetano Carpio (born August 6, 1918 in Santa Tecla in El Salvador , † April 12, 1983 in Managua ) Nom de guerre Comandante Marcial was secretary general of the Partido Comunista de El Salvador in El Salvador from 1964 to 1970 .

Life

Salvador Cayetano Carpio trained as a baker in the Panadería del Hospital de Antigua Guatemala in 1932 . In 1943 he participated in a union dispute over higher wages in the Panadería of Félix Olando, in which he worked and a short time later became head of the bakers' union . In 1945 he joined the Partido Comunista de El Salvador . In 1950 he founded the Comité de Reorganización Obrera Sindical Salvadoreña (CROSS), an association of communist trade unions. From 1952 to 1953 he was imprisoned for one year under the government of Óscar Osorio; after his release he went into exile in Mexico. He wrote a documentary about his experiences in prison, Secuestro y capucha . He traveled to the USSR , where he studied for a few years at the cadre school of the CPSU . During the holidays he traveled to El Salvador, where he was elected General Secretary of the trade union confederation, Confederación General de Trabajadores Salvadoreños , CGTS.

In 1963, after completing his studies, he returned to El Salvador and headed the PCS. He had the members of the Frente Unido de Acción Revolucionaria (FUAR), a faction for the armed struggle, expelled on grounds such as immature , adventurous and had the Salvadoran industrial proletariat searched for, since the government of Julio Adalberto Rivera had plans for industrialization.

In 1964 he was elected General Secretary of the PCS. In the following years he propagated the armed struggle as the only viable way to overthrow the military regime, according to a scheme of the worker-farmer alliance. In April 1967 the PCS took part in the election campaign with the Partido de Acción Renovadora , and Salvador Cayetano Carpio called a general strike to enforce the reinstatement of laid-off workers at the Aceros SA steelworks . With a series of high-profile strikes, the country was brought to a standstill in three days and the demands were enforced. When the agreements were broken a few months later, Carpio went on hunger strike on the campus of the Universidad de El Salvador . Political leaders, academics, students, and professors convinced him that the government would let him die and that it was not worth the effort to go that far. Carpio ended his hunger strike and there was a dispute within the PCS administration over the need for armed struggle. In 1970 he resigned as general secretary and left the PCS with the worker José Dimas Alas and the student leader Felipe Peña and founded the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación (FPL), a guerrilla .

To support the armed struggle, the Bloque Popular Revolucionario (BPR) was founded in 1975 , from which the Frente de Acción Popular Unificada (FAPU) split off, which included workers, farmers, students and teachers. The first general secretary of FAPU was Mélida Anaya Montes, the head of a teachers' union, which was replaced by Facundo Guardado.

The trained Stalinist Salvador Cayetano Carpio developed public relations work, to which the Agencia Salvadoreña de Prensa (SALPRESS) in Mexico and the Radio Farabundo Martí in Chalatenango belonged.

In 1980, the terror of FAES and ORDEN made the political climate in El Salvador so dangerous for political left activists that all left currents armed themselves and the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) was founded. The answer to the question "armed struggle or not" was given by the death squads. At the beginning of the civil war in 1980, Salvador Cayetano Carpio was in Managua. The struggles over course and power continued.

As a representative of the FMLN , Salvador Cayetano Carpio maintained relations with the governments of Sweden , Libya , Yugoslavia and the PLO .

On April 6, 1983, Mélida Anaya Montes (Comandante Ana María) was murdered in Managua.

Cayetano Carpio was regarded as intellectual author of the murder and committed April 12, 1983 suicide .

On March 15, 1984, before the Juzgado Segundo del Distrito del Crimen in Managua, there was a trial for the murder of Mélida Anaya Montes against Rogelio Bazzaglia (Comandante Marcelo) in Managua. The prosecution did not provide any evidence of the crime committed by Rogelio Bazzaglia and he was acquitted.

Web links

• Wikisource has the discourse of Discurso del compañero Marcial en ocasión del 31.º aniversario de las Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, the 1.º de April of 1983 .
• Wikisource has the farewell letter from carta de suicidio de Salvador Cayetano Carpio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ecumenico , 08/03/2006, Biografìa de Salvador Cayetano Carpio ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.