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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...
Coming five days into a fierce offensive by leftist Salvadoran rebels which has reached the wealthiest areas of San Salvador, public sentiment had begun to swing to the rightist government under Alfredo Cristiani. Many saw the offensive, which killed hundreds of civilians and rebels, as a last-ditch effort to provoke outrages by a government closely identified in the past with the severest death squads in Latin America...
Last week the troops of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) embarrassed President Alfredo Cristiani by seizing control of the wealthy Escalon district and then melting away again. As rebels burned several luxurious homes and sniped at slowly advancing government troops from windows, hundreds of foreigners and wealthy Salvadorans fled the country. The F.M.L.N. even carried the battle to the skies: for the first time in the ten- year-old conflict, the insurgents fired a surface-to-air missile at an air force jet. The sharply escalating violence not only raised fresh questions about Nicaragua's role in arming...
...incident pointed up yet again that guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) continue to have the ability to paralyze the government of President Alfredo Cristiani and outwit the Salvadoran army. Just as the 1968 Tet offensive in Viet Nam forced Washington and the American public to question the U.S. position in Southeast Asia, the F.M.L.N.'s latest attacks have raised fundamental doubts about the whole U.S. approach to El Salvador...
...arrest comes at a time when the right-wing government, officially led by President Alfredo Cristiani but increasingly influenced by extreme right-wing politicians and death squads, has come under international attack for the escalation of human rights violations. Since a fierce rebel offensive began two weeks ago, the military and the right wing have responded with violent attacks on human rights organizations and trade union, indiscriminate bombings on poor villages, and harassment of religious workers. The most notorious of recent events was the murder and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter...