The National Resistance Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional) was the military arm of National Resistance, a Salvadoran socialist organization that was founded on May 10, 1975, when ideological differences within the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) and the assassinations of Roque Dalton and Armando Arteaga made some members break away from the ERP. Ernesto Jovel was its first general secretary. Other founding members of the RN included Eduardo Sancho (aka Fermán Cienfuegos), Lil Milagro Ramírez, Julia Rodríguez and Arsenio.[1]

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National Resistance Armed Forces
Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional
Founding leaderErnesto Jovel
Dates of operation1975–1992
CountryEl Salvador
AllegianceFarabundo Martí National Liberation Front
IdeologyRevolutionary socialism
Anti-imperialism
Part ofNational Resistance
OpponentsSalvadoran junta
United States
Battles and warsSalvadoran Civil War
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