Word: farabundo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more immediate concern in Washington seemed to be how to hold the line in El Salvador. Buoyed by the reorganization of the Salvadoran high command last November, U.S. military aides argued that government forces "had turned the corner" in their struggle against the guerrilla armies of the five-member Farabundo Marti National Liberation
...Cabañas and the fertile strip of northern Cuscatlán (see map). Though command of the villages seesaws between rebel and government forces, the guerrillas have held on to about 50 towns. For the first time in the four-year civil war, the forces of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), an umbrella organization for five guerrilla groups, are consolidating their power in towns, not just isolated hamlets...
Fortunately for the U.S., the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, known as the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), are also in disarray following an internal dispute that left two of their leaders dead. But they still dominate almost half of the countryside. Since the conflict began in 1979, they have disrupted the Salvadoran economy by inflicting up to $600 million in damages to farms, factories and utilities...
...proposal this week. Rejection of the measure would be a major blow to U.S. policy in El Salvador. According to the Administration's own gloomy forecast, the Salvadoran government is in danger of losing its war against some 6,000 guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) unless the Salvadoran army receives more money, arms and advisers...
...Back in Washington the mood seemed hardly favorable to such a request. Some outspoken Congressmen feel that the U.S. should relax its longstanding support for the Salvadoran government and instead pursue power-sharing negotiations with the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a course the guerrillas have long advocated. Said New York Congressman Stephen Solarz: "There's a growing concern that our policy is leading nowhere...