ABSTRACT
Ana Maria Castillo Rivas, known as Companera Eugenia, devoted ten of her thirty-one years to the Salvadoran revolution, developing from a student activist into a member of the FMLN leadership. At Catholic high school, Eugenia joined a group of students who regularly visited the slums and charity hospitals of San Salvador. At eighteen, Eugenia went to Guatemala as a missionary and worked as a health educator with the Indians of Quetzaltenango. Deeply affected by the horrible exploitation and oppression that she witnessed there, Eugenia became even more determined to understand the causes of poverty and to find a solution to the suffering of her people. In December of 1976, Eugenia took an oath to become a full member of the forces of liberation (FPL). In December of 1980, a month of great preparations, the leaders of the FPL transferred Eugenia to the “Felipe Peña” Front in San Salvador.
