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Cristiani has also called for the 56,000-strong military to have a freer hand in defeating the guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, who currently number about 6,000. Some Salvadorans fear such a strategy would mean ignoring a sizable increase in death-squad activities and other human-rights abuses. ARENA Founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former army major who ran against Duarte in the 1984 elections and has since yielded his party's leadership to Cristiani, has been linked by U.S. intelligence to the killer squads that ran amuck in the early 1980s...
...growing record of policy failures. The President, who has another year to serve, took office in 1984, promising to end the war and restore economic health to the country. But today some 40% of the country's workers are unemployed and El Salvador's war against the Marxist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front sputters on, a point that guerrillas underscored by knocking out 80% of the country's electricity supply on election eve. Duarte's popularity in Washington, once a source of strength at home, is ridiculed today by many Salvadorans, who feel that U.S. advice and assistance have brought...
...little-known leftist group called the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Guerrilla Commandos claimed responsibility. It is an offshoot of one of five guerrilla armies in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which has been fighting the U.S.-backed government for the past eight years...
...doubts the squads still roam the countryside and prowl city streets. In late October, Herbert Anaya, president of the nongovernmental Commission for Human Rights, was gunned down in San Salvador. His death led to cancellation of cease-fire talks between the government and the guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N...
...hands of the military, so why risk trouble? In Chalatenango province, near the border with Honduras, the locals stay away from the rutted dirt paths that wind through the green hills. Unwary travelers have lost feet or legs to land mines planted by rebel troops of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...