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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - The body of a Salvadoran guerrilla leader who was an integral part of the country's revolutionary movement has been buried in her homeland 24 years after her killing, her supporters said Wednesday.
Melida Anaya Montes, a school teacher who was known as "Comandante Ana Maria" of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, was exhumed from her grave in Nicaragua and buried in El Salvador in a discreet ceremony Saturday.
Emma Julia Fabian, a congresswoman with the FMLN, which is now a political party, said Anaya Montes rose to become one of the FMLN's top leaders when it waged a powerful insurgency against U.S.-backed administrations.
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