Federación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores Salvadoreños

The Federación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores Salvadoreños (FENASTRAS) is a trade union centre in El Salvador.It was founded in 1924 to bring unity to the country's labor movement, but did not achieve formal legal recognition until 1974.The Salvadoran and United States governments' regarded FENASTRAS as a political front for rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrillas and thus the organization was a target for harassment and even violent attacks during the civil war.On October 31 of that year, a more powerful bomb, placed near the building's lunchroom, was detonated when the hall was packed for the mid-day meal.[3] Forty unionists were wounded and nine were killed, including the organization's General Secretary, Febe Elizabeth Velazquez.
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