Word: farabundo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resurgence in fighting suggests that the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the umbrella organization that links El Salvador's five different guerrilla groups, has replenished its arms supplies and has returned to the battlefront more organized and determined than ever. The front has apparently patched over the internal quarrels that prevented it from seriously disrupting the March elections. Moreover, the guerrillas have been able to neutralize the Salvadoran army's best combat units through more sophisticated assault strategies. "Before, only one faction of the left could attack at once," said a U.S. official. "Now there is more...
...views of the Christian Democrats. One thing is certain: leaders of the Christian Democrats have had ties with the Revolutionary Democratic Front [F.D.R.] and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front [F.M.L.N.] [the political and military arms of the guerrilla movement]. I will provide proof at the beginning of next week. But we will invite those Christian Democrats who have the capacity to participate in a government of national conciliation to join...
...background while others argue their cause in public. For security reasons, they often do not even use their own names. Despite their current unity, they have resorted to murder to settle factional disputes in the past. The five guerrilla commanders who make up the general command of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) are the real powers behind the Salvadoran insurgency. If the guerrillas ever took power, these men would control El Salvador. The quintet...
...other top commanders of the F.M.L.N. He was probably the last of the leaders to agree to the current guerrilla strategy of combining warfare with an offer to negotiate with the Salvadoran government for a share of power. Significantly, the F.P.L. maintains its own underground radio station, Radio Farabundo Martí, separate from the guerrillas' joint propaganda station, Radio Venceremos...
...position of innocent Salvadoran civilians caught in a crossfire between the opposing forces is likely to get worse before it gets better. For one thing, the guerrillas are becoming more active. Last week the so-called Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front launched attacks on Salvadoran military positions in various parts of the country. In one raid, the government claimed that the guerrillas killed 400 civilians, in addition to twelve members of a local army outpost. But when journalists were taken to a mass grave of victims of the attack, they discovered that it was not big enough to hold more...