Rambai muchinyora ndima ino - Musi wa13 Zvita 1980, junta yechipiri yakapera mushure mekunge Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano akamanikidzwa kusiya basa rake, uye junta yechitatu yakaumbwa nenhengo ina dzakasara: Mutungamiri José Napoleón Duarte, Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri Colonel Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez, José Ramón Ávalos Navarrete, naJosé Antonio Morales Ehrlich. Gare gare mumwedzi iwoyo, musi wa27 December 1980, Fermán Cienfuegos, mutungamiriri weArmed Forces of National Resistance (FARN), ruoko rwemauto rweNational Resistance, akazivisa kuti "kurwisa kwekupedzisira" kwaizotangwa neFMLN kurwisa junta isati yatanga.
Ronald Reagan saMutungamiriri weUnited States musi wa20 January 1981. Mapoka evapanduki akaita mabasa nokugadzirira "kurwisa kwokupedzisira" muna December 1980 naJanuary 1981. Mauto akabata mapepa aishevedza varombo vomumaruwa kuti vabatane neFMLN uye zvirongwa zvebasa zvakatsigira kuti ma guerrillas akanga achironga kurwisa, asi zvinangwa zvakananga hazvina kutaurwa uye zvakaramba zvisingazivikanwi kuhurumende. Somugumisiro, High Command General Staff, inoumbwa naColonels Gutiérrez, José Guillermo García, Rafael Flores Lima, naFrancisco Adolfo Castillo, vakaisa mauto mu"mamiriro ekurinda" mukugadzirira kurwisa kwakadaro.