During the 1980s, the department was the stronghold of the Farabundo Martí Popular Forces of Liberation (FPL), one of the two largest groups in the Frente Farabundo Martí Para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN).
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Around 1790, Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet, Governor of El Salvador, found that the local indigenous population working in Chaletenango's indigo industry had declined greatly.
In 2004, Omnionn made contact with an independent and obscure hip hop group in the department of Chalatenango, El Salvador called "Pescozada", formed at the time by three young men with a passion to make hip hop music in one of the most rural and politically isolated areas of the country.
San José Las Flores is a municipality and city in Chalatenango Department, El Salvador.
Born Elvia Violeta Menjívar in Arcatao, Chalatenango, she studied medicine at the University of El Salvador.
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