Enrique Álvarez Córdova

Enrique Álvarez Córdova (4 March 1930 – 27 November 1980) was a politician and statesman of El Salvador.

After a frustrated attempt to be a Salvadoran "New Dealer," attempting to implement agrarian reform as El Salvador's minister of agriculture and cattle raising, Álvarez dramatically changed course and joined the Democratic Revolutionary Front (Frente Democrático Revolucionário or FDR).

"[2] The right-wing extremist group Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Anti-Communist Brigade (Brígada Anticomunista Maximiliano Hernández Martínez) claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and subsequent murders.

Given the volatile situation present at the time, the crime sparked public outcry, curtailing hopes for a political solution to the Salvadoran Civil War, which began that same year.

Despite denying any involvement, in 1993 the post-Salvadoran Civil War United Nations Truth Commission reported a strong connection between high level government security forces and Enrique's murder, however it was unable to identify the perpetrators.