Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Musi wa13 Zvita 1980, junta yechipiri yakaparadzwa 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 waDecember 27, 1980, Fermán Cienfuegos, mutungamiri weArmed Forces of National Resistance (FARN), ruoko rune simba rweNational Resistance, akazivisa kuti "kurwisa kwekupedzisira" kwaizotangwa neFMLN kurwisa junta pamberi pekuparadzwa kwevanhu.
kugadzwa kwaRonald Reagan saPurezidhendi 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.