Nidia Diaz Net Worth

How much is Nidia Diaz net worth? Nidia Diaz is a lawyer and politician with a net worth of $1 million . She has been a deputy to the Legislative Assembly and the Central American Parliament. Since May 1, 2018, she has been the FMLN faction leader in the legislative assembly.

Early Life

 Nidia Diaz completed high school studies at the Divina Providencia College of the Passionist Sisters of San Salvador, graduating as a bachelor in 1969. She entered the University of El Salvador and studied for 3 years a Bachelor of Psychology interrupting his studies in 1975. In the 1970s, she became involved in the social movement in opposition to the military government of El Salvador. Initially, it was influenced by the Christian Democratic Party, the main legal opposition force. Later, he approached left groups linked to the student movement; She went underground in the middle of that decade, as a member of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers (PRTC), an insurgent organization in which he was responsible for political work with the peasant population. In 1980, she promoted the incorporation of the PRTC into the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN). Read

Arrest and release

On April 18, 1985, she was arrested in an operation by the Salvadoran Army in the Cerros de San Pedro area, department of San Vicente, in which the involvement of personnel from the United States Central Intelligence Agency was reported, specifically , the participation of the Cuban-American agent Félix Rodríguez. After her arrest, she was kept deprived of liberty at the San Salvador National Police headquarters for six months, during which time she reported having been subjected to physical and psychological torture. She was released in October 1985, as a result of a swap operation between the FMLN and the Salvadoran government, Which included the daughter of the President of the Republic José Napoleón Duarte, who had been kidnapped by a guerrilla column.

Medical

After receiving medical treatment in Cuba, she compiled the experiences of her seclusion in the testimonial book I never was alone , published in 1988 (UCA Editores). In the words of the academic Natalia Ruiz, the work of Nidia Díaz, as well as the book The clandestine prisons by Ana Guadalupe Martínez , provide elements to understand the contribution of women in the armed struggle in El Salvador, together with the experience of imprisonment: In sum, Ana Guadalupe and Nidia Díaz insert two traditionally marginal subjects, such as female prisoners, in a marginal space such as prison, from which they build an “I” with a political agency. Within this construction, not only feminine elements are handled, such as maternity and sexuality, but also issues between the individual and the collective, the personal and the political.

Peace and postwar process

Nidia Díaz participated in the negotiation process between the insurgency and the government (1989-1992), as part of the FMLN’s Diplomatic Political Commission, whose work led to the Chapultepec Peace Accords. After the Civil War in El Salvador , he contributed to the founding of the FMLN as a legal political party. Read Cristina Cornejo net worth and Life story She was appointed as a candidate for the FMLN deputy in the 1994 elections, the first of the postwar period. After surviving an attempt on her life in the middle of the campaign, she was elected and took office on May 1 of that year, the date on which she was appointed as president of the Legislative Commission for Justice and Human Rights. On May 19, 1994, he was the victim of a second attempt on his life, prompting an international campaign to guarantee his personal safety promoted by Amnesty International. She was reelected as a deputy in 1997. In 1999, she was a candidate for vice president of El Salvador, representing the coalition formed by the FMLN and the Christian Social Union, with Facundo Guardado as her running mate. On that occasion, he obtained second place with 29% of the votes. In the legislative elections of 2000, she was elected as a deputy to the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) for a five-year term, which she assumed in October 2001. She was re-elected in 2006, concluding her second term in October 2011. She was vice president of the Parlacen by the State of El Salvador for the period 2009-2010. In 2015, she returned to the Legislative Assembly, as a deputy for the department of San Salvador.

What is Nidia Diaz’s net worth?

Nidia Diaz net worth is estimated to be $1 million as of 2021. However, along with her political militancy, she has participated in the movement for women’s rights and in the Association of Parliamentarians and Former Parliamentarians of El Salvador (ASPARLEXAL), whose presidency she holds for the period 2016-2018. On June 25, 2017, Diaz was elected to head the list of candidates for deputies of the FMLN in the department of San Salvador , overlooking legislative elections on March 4, 2018.