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...rivals for the country's presidency far behind by polling an outright majority, 54% of the estimated 1 million ballots cast. Cristiani's victory, however, was muted by a voter turnout of only about 50%. The high rate of abstentions translated in part to support for the boycotting Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist guerrilla force that has battled for power for the past nine years...
...Their Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front had called for a boycott and launched widespread attacks to keep voters at home...
Hidden beneath the foliage, several hundred guerrillas of the People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the strongest of five factions that make up the 10,000-member Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, have begun battling government forces for control of the economically vital region. "Cirilo," the western regional commander of the E.R.P., explains, "Our interest is to lead the people toward insurrection. They are already clandestinely organized, and now we are moving to arm them...
After a flurry of proposals and counterproposals, El Salvador was not an inch closer to peace. President Jose Napoleon Duarte, whose Christian Democrats are trailing in the polls, took the diplomatic initiative last week by calling for talks with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and offering to postpone for six weeks the presidential elections scheduled for March 19. The army also unilaterally declared a cease-fire until June...
...including the ultra-right ARENA, ended near Mexico City last week without a breakthrough. Yet in offering to lay down their arms and join "the political life of the country" in exchange for military reforms and a six-month delay in the presidential elections scheduled for March 19, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) clearly scored a coup. By advancing a negotiable proposal, the rebels managed to put the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government -- and especially the army -- on the defensive...