Between 1975 and 1979, the Montoneros were effectively eliminated.  The Montoneros founder, Mario Firmenich, fled Argentina in late 1977.  With the death of Firmenich's replacement, Horacio Mendizabal, in 1979; the Montoneros were no longer a significant terrorist threat.  In 1981, Mario Firmenich asked all remaining Montoneros terrorists to disarm and cease any terrorist activities.

Morazanist Front for the Liberation of Honduras (FMLH)

In 1980, the Morazanist Front for the Liberation of Honduras (FMLH) split from the Party for the Transformation of Honduras (Partido para la Transformacion de Honduras, or PTH), itself an offshoot of the Communist Party of Honduras (Partido Comunista de Honduras, or PCH). Named after Honduran and Central American hero Francisco Morazan, who struggled to maintain the unity of the United States of Central America before it dissolved in 1840, the FMLH was a Communist movement that advocated the use of violent means to oppose the Honduran government.<br /><p><br /><br />Soon after the FMLH was created, the government in Honduras adopted very repressive measures designed to root out the leftist insurgencies that appeared in Honduras in the early 1980s. As a result, many leaders of these Marxist/Leninist/Communist groups fled the country and led their movements in exile, with the support of other leftist insurgencies in other Central American countries. During this period, the FMLH was administered from Nicaragua. <br /><p><br /><br />The 1980s witnessed a smattering of terrorist attacks in Honduras perpetrated by leftist groups, including the FMLH's attack on a Tegucigalpa disco that injured many. However, due to the lack of support from the relatively conservative people of Honduras and the harsh but effective measures undertaken by the Honduran government, the leftist movement never took hold. <br /><p><br /><br />The disco attack is the only incident ever attributed to the FMLH. FMLH is unrelated to the Morazanist Patriotic Front, a terrorist organization that targeted U.S. servicemen stationed in Honduras up until the mid-1990s. <br />