Word: salvadoran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget the warm smiles and bonhomie that usually attend summitry. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and his Salvadoran counterpart, Alfredo Cristiani, kept their distance during photo opportunities, and the 20 hours of negotiations sometimes grew strained. But when the five Central American Presidents emerged from their seventh regional summit near San Jose, Costa Rica, they signed a final communique that referred to a common commitment to nudging a stalled peace process...
...sooner was the ink dry than Ortega accused the Salvadoran army of dropping bombs on civilian neighborhoods in San Salvador. Cristiani's post- summit assessment of the Nicaraguan: "I don't trust Ortega...
Although their friends fiercely affirm that none of the priests were politicians, the nature of their academic studies and UCA's prominent efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the Salvadoran war made them highly political targets of the Salvadoran right wing...
Under its editor-in-chief, Martin-Baro, ECA often published figures and analyses at odds with U.S. and Salvadoran government figures, Mullaney says...
...However, the university usually had sources that were in the field or on the parish level--in the community health clinics, together with the Green Cross [the Salvadoran equivalent of the Red Cross]. But it was always later proven that the figures reported by the UCA were always accurate," says Mullaney...