Chapultepec Peace Accords facts for kids

The Chapultepec Peace Accords were a set of peace agreements signed on January 16, 1992. It ended the Salvadoran Civil War. The treaty created peace between the Salvadoran government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). It was signed in Chapultepec Castle, Mexico.

The treaty was negotiated by representatives of the Salvadoran government, the rebel movement FMLN, and political parties, with observers from the Roman Catholic Church and United Nations.

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  The Chapultepec Peace Accords. For Maurice Lemoine, French intellectual “at the negotiating table, puts an end to a sixty-year-old military hegemony and will allow a deep reform of the State based on a series of unprecedented measures: respect for universal suffrage; reform of the judiciary; constitutional reform; separation of Defense and Public Security, downsizing of the army, creation of a national civilian police

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  An ERP combatant in Perquín in 1990.

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  Mural of the peace agreement located on the national museum in San Salvador; in the image the guerilla leader Schafik Handal leader of the FMLN and the president of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani shaking hands.

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  The Monument to Peace, built in 1994, to commemorate the Chapultepec Peace Accords.

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  Reconciliation Monument.

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In Spanish: Acuerdos de Paz de Chapultepec para niños