229:, or FMLN. Padre Rodríguez, as an FPL member, also became active in the FMLN, performing a number of roles during the twelve-year civil war. Though not a combatant, his involvement in the FPL and FMLN included organizing Christians who supported the revolutionary movement, working with the so-called Local Popular Powers (the governing organizations in the guerrilla-controlled zones), and helping to finance the civial war and displaced communities in the country. During the civil war, Padre Rodríguez also functioned as a priest for those who lived in the zones controlled by the guerrillas.
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with other liberationist priests and nuns, became a target of the state. After the government's national guard killed six peasants in the small town of La
Cayetana, a community that Padre David had organized, Rodríguez decided to join one of the so-called politico-military organizations, the
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Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement" Journal of Latin American Studies 46, no. 4 (November 2014): 637-662; and Peter M. Sanchez, Priest Under Fire: Padre David Rodríguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvador's
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