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| | A short history of El Salvador |
 | | Elected presidents are Miguel Enrique Araujo Rodríguez (1911-1913, assassinated and succeeded by his vice-president), Alfonso Quiñónez Molina (1913-1915 and 1923-1927), Carlos Meléndez (1915-1918), Jorge Meléndez Ramírez (1919-1923), Pío Romero Bosque "Don Pío" (1927-1931) and in 1931 Arturo Araujo Fujardo of the Partido Trabajo (Labour Party, PT). |
 | | Since 1961 the right-wing Partido de Conciliación Nacional (Party of National Concilation, PCN), strongly related to the army, is under the presidents Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo (1962-1967), Fidel Sánchez Hernández (1967-1972), Arturo Armando Molina (1972-1977) and Carlos Humberto Romero (1977-1979) in power. |
 | | His governments achieves in 1992 a peace agreement to end the civil war: the opposing sides sign peace accords which end the war, brings the military under civilian control, and allows the former guerillas to form a legitimate political party and participate in elections. |
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