El Salvador

Mr. Martinez is the current Deputy for the department of La Paz in El Salvador. A member of the Salvadoran Assembly, Mr. Martinez belongs to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which began as a guerrilla group and continues as an opposition party today. He is one of the eight founding members of FMLN and is its current parliamentary head. From 1994 -1997, Mr Martinez held the position of Head of the Parliamentary Fraction of the FMLN, following which he held the position of First Vice-president of the FMLN to the Legislative Assembly until 2000.