Roberto Cañas López

Salvadoran politician, economist, academic, and academic administrator (1950–2021)

Roberto Cañas López (21 November 1950 – 24 January 2021) was a Salvadoran politician, economist, academic and academic administrator.

Cañas was a guerrilla fighter during the Salvadoran Civil War as a member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Known by the pseudonyms "Rubén Rojas" or "Saul I", Cañas was a FMLN negotiator and signatory of the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords between the Salvadoran government and the FMLN, which ended the 12-year civil war.^[1]^[2]

Cañas graduated from Liceo Salvadoreño in San Salvador in 1967.^[1] He then studied economics at the University of El Salvador, where he became involved in the left-wing political movement in the 1970s. ^[1] During the Salvadoran Civil War, Cañas joined the FMLN's Diplomatic Political Commission and became a spokesperson and negotiator for the FMLN.^[1]

In 2014, Cañas was candidate for Mayor of San Salvador for the Democratic Change party, but lost to Nayib Bukele.^[1]^[2]

Cañas López died in San Salvador, El Salvador, on 24 January 2021, at the age of 80.^[1]^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 Cruz Rojas, Álvaro (2021-01-24). "Fallece Roberto Cañas, firmante de los Acuerdos de Paz y destacado académico". El Mundo (El Salvador). Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
1 2 3 "Fallece Roberto Cañas, ex militante del FMLN y firmante de los Acuerdos de Paz". La Prensa Gráfica. 2021-01-24. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

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