David E. Spencer Livres

The book explores the history of the FMLN guerrilla special forces in El Salvador, known as FES, highlighting their training in Cuba and Vietnam and their use of tactics inspired by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army. It details their major operations and methods of terror against the Salvadoran armed forces from 1981 to 1992. Additionally, the author provides insights into similar special forces groups across other Latin American countries, offering a broader context to their activities and influence in the region.

With this compilation of essays, the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC) wishes to encourage the study of a new type of global conflict faced by open societies. From the Cold War between ideological blocs we have moved onto a new conflict between open, democratic, rule-of-law abiding societies, and on the other hand a fluid coalition of States and dissimilar irregular forces that represent various forms of transnational organized crime.We are not in the presence of leftist or "revolutionary" processes, but in the face of the emergence of a regional criminal alliance under the guise of the so-called "Socialism of the 21st Century." A new type of State, criminal and transnational, linked to drug trafficking and terrorism, has established itself under the noses of an inter-American system that does not know how to classify what is now confronting it, and for that reason fails to assess the seriousness of the threat it represents for its national security or is incapable of finding effective ways to deal with it.

Analyzes the military organization, strategy, and tactics of the Salvadoran FMLN guerillas in their efforts to overthrow the government, drawing from the authors' personal collections of guerilla documents, interviews, and combat experience in El Salvador.