Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A ranar 13 ga Disamba, 1980, an rushe majalisar zartarwa ta biyu bayan da aka tilasta wa Kanar Adolfo Arnoldo Majano ya yi murabus daga mukaminsa, kuma an kafa majalisar zartarwa ta uku tare da sauran mambobi hudu: Shugaba José Napoleón Duarte, Mataimakin Shugaban Kasa Kanar Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez, José Ramón Ávalos Navarrete, da José Antonio Morales Ehrlich. Daga baya a wannan watan, a ranar 27 ga Disamba, 1980, Fermán Cienfuegos, kwamandan Sojojin Sojojin Kasa (FARN), reshen mayakan na National Resistance, ya ba da sanarwar cewa FMLN za ta kaddamar da " farmaki na karshe " a kan gwamnatin mulkin soja kafin a kammala yakin neman zabe.
rantsar da Ronald Reagan a matsayin Shugaban Amurka a ranar 20 ga Janairu 1981. 'Yan bindiga sun gudanar da ayyukan da shirye-shirye don "harin karshe" a watan Disamba 1980 da Janairu 1981. Sojojin sun kama littattafan da ke kira ga talakawan karkara da su shiga FMLN da tsare-tsaren da suka tabbatar da cewa 'yan bindiga suna shirin kai hari, amma ba a ambaci takamaiman manufofi ba kuma ba a san gwamnati ba. A sakamakon haka, Babban Kwamandan Janar, wanda ya kunshi Colonels Gutiérrez, José Guillermo García, Rafael Flores Lima, da Francisco Adolfo Castillo, sun sanya sojoji a cikin "yanayin faɗakarwa" a shirye-shiryen irin wannan harin.