Ana Maria (17 May 1929 - 6 April 1983) was the "nom de guerre" of Mélida Anaya Montes, the second in command of the FMLN, in El Salvador. An intellectual, she was considered as an icon among revolutionary women in the region. Eventually she was killed by her own comrades on April 6, 1983 in Managua, Nicaragua, after having made many sacrifices during her life as a guerrilla. Later, the FMLN blamed its leader Cayetano Carpio (sometimes referred to as the "Ho Chi Minh of Latin America") as the person responsible for the crime, and he committed suicide. Early life She was born in the small town of Santiago Texacuangos, in the central zone of El Salvador. Ana Maria received her Doctorate of Education from the University of El Salvador, where she became a professor of education and gave classes in the Sixties. She was the assistant director of Alberto Masferrer University. At the end of the

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