Editing Francisco Flores (section)

==Beginnings in politics==
He was born in Santa Ana, on October 17, 1959, into a wealthy conservative mestizo family. He studied at the American School of El Salvador and then philosophy at Amherst College in Massachusetts, United States, and political science at World University. In addition to studies of eastern philosophy in India with the thought of Hinduism.

He entered the political world after the assassination of his father-in-law José Antonio Rodríguez Porth, the Private Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic in the government of Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994).

He successfully began his political career in the  ARENA political party as Minister of Planning. Later as Vice Minister of the Presidency of the Republic with functions as advisor to the Head of State, he directed the Government Action Plan to execute the Peace Accords of January 16 of [[1992]] that ended the armed struggle between the FMLN and the Government of El Salvador.

In the general elections of March 20, 1994 for President of the Republic, deputies and members of municipal councils, Flores was elected Deputy for the Legislative Assembly and the then president Armando Calderón Sol, elected him Secretary of Information of the Presidency of the Republic.