Word: farabundo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
None of the five guerrilla groups in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front coalition, nor any of the rightist death squads active in the country, have claimed responsibility for the assassination...
...Radio Venceremos broadcast quoted both the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and its political ally, the Democratic Revolutionary Front, as saying the killing endangers further peace talks between the government and leftist forces...
Perhaps. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front showed little interest in the peace plan when it was first discussed in February, but the rebels were forced to pay closer attention when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega joined Duarte in affixing his signature to the accord two weeks ago. Last week Duarte proposed that the rebels sit down with his government on Sept. 15 to discuss a cease-fire and amnesty. The rebels agreed to talk but not under the aegis of the Guatemala Plan...
...President has come up against some hard realities. The war between the government and the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) has taken more than 60,000 lives and dragged to a stalemate. Salvadoran soldiers have improved, thanks to U.S. training, but they are unable to defeat the guerrillas. When Duarte struck a deal with the rebels for the release of his kidnaped daughter in October 1985, his relations with some top officers suffered. Last October an earthquake devastated much of San Salvador, inflicting more than $1 billion in damages and compounding the country's economic woes...