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...past year, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has been itching for a rematch with El Salvador's U.S.-trained armed forces. Last year thousands of FMLN fighters nearly overran the capital, San Salvador, before the army's superior firepower inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels. Last week the FMLN launched a minioffensive in 10 of the country's 14 departments but scored no major victories...
Officials estimated that 200 civilians and fighters were killed, and more than 300 were wounded throughout the country. The FMLN leadership views such muscle flexing as a bargaining chip in U.N.-mediated negotiations with the government to end the decade-old civil...
Francisco Altschul, a member of the rebel group FMLN's diplomatic commission said that a reduction in U.S. aid might induce the El Salvadoran government to make concessions to guerrilla leaders...
...defense of FMLN's guerilla-style opposition to the Salvadoran government, Garcia said that the country needed to respond to the "institutional violence" that has characterized the last two decades of Salvadoran politics. "Our people took the legitimate right to force," he said...
...FMLN won about 4 percent of the votes in the March election, while the right-wing party, led by Alfredo Christiani, won more than 50 percent. Garcia said that the election was simply a tool of "low-intensity warfare" and did not represent the eligible electorate...