Schafik Jorge Handal: Our revolutionary struggle has its roots in a half-century-long process of struggles for democracy and social justice. The Salvadoran people sought to advance toward their aims by peaceful means, including elections, until such possibilities were exhausted. The rich and recalcitrant oligarchy of the big capitalists and landlords and their instrument of domination, the reactionary military dictatorship, smothered those efforts and hopes in the torture chambers, in the jails, in exile, in the abundant blood shed by their butchery, and in the more and more open and widespread electoral frauds. As a result there arose in time the armed struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3434