In January 1992 the leaders of the Salvadoran guerrilla the FMLN signed a peace agreement with the government of that country. To achieve that goal, the principal actors navigated a very complex and contested path. This article intends to make a detailed analysis of that process, which has become an example for Latin America and especially for Colombia. In its pages, I analyze the civil war context before the negotiations and the political and military aspects involved in the negotiation of the peace agreement. For this I use oral history methods, and the narratives of some of the conflict protagonists.