Chapultepec Peace Accords

Chapultepec Peace Accords

Type	Peace treaty
Context	Salvadoran Civil War
Signed	January 16, 1992 (1992-01-16)
Location	Chapultepec Castle, Mexico
Effective	February 1, 1992
Parties	Salvadoran government Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
Language	Spanish

The Chapultepec Peace Accords were a set of peace agreements signed on January 16, 1992, the day in which the Salvadoran Civil War ended. The treaty established peace between the Salvadoran government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). It was signed in Chapultepec Castle, Mexico.^[1][2][3]

The treaty was negotiated^[4] by representatives of the Salvadoran government, the rebel movement FMLN, and political parties, with observers from the Roman Catholic Church and United Nations. The peace talks were mediated by Álvaro de Soto, the special representative of the UN Secretary-General.^[5]

The final agreement was divided into 9 chapters that covered 5 fundamental areas:

• Modification of the Armed Forces and demobilization of all armed FMLN units;
• Replacement of the National Guard with the National Civil Police;
• Modifications to the judicial system and the defense of human rights;
• Modification to the electoral system;
• The adoption of measures affecting the economic and social fields.

Compliance with the agreements took place under the supervision of a special mission of the United Nations, which gave a settlement after 3 years of management.^[6][1] On December 31, 1991, the government and the FMLN initialed a preliminary peace agreement under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. The final agreement was signed in Mexico City on January 16, 1992, at Chapultepec Castle.

A nine-month ceasefire took effect on February 1, 1992,^[7] and it has never been broken.