Lorena Peña

Representing the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), from May 2014 to November 2016, she was the third woman to become president of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.

As of November 2023, she continues to serve as president of the Women's International Democratic Federation, following her election in September 2016 at the organization's congress in Bogotá.

Adopting the pseudonym Nadia Palacios, in 1980 as the Salvadoran Civil War intensified, attracting large numbers of students and workers, together with her three brothers she manned a command post in the west of the country.

[1][4] In March 2023, the Salvadoran tax authorities initiated a civil case against Lorena Peña, accusing her of corruption.

[3] Under the pen name Rebeca Palacios, in 2009 Lorena Peña published Retazos de mi vida (Segments of My Life), an account of the part she played in the civil war.