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...countryside the fear seems palpable. In Piedra Labrada, a village in Cuscatlan, guardsmen opposed a meeting to form an agricultural cooperative. The get-together took place anyway. The next morning, an 18-year-old boy who had attended was found dead. Only three people turned out for the next meeting. Human rights groups focus on atrocities by the armed forces, but the F.M.L.N. is also guilty of abuses. In April two men in the village of La Periquera were executed by the guerrillas for failing to pay a "war tax." In another town, the F.M.L.N. announced it would execute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Riddled with Fear | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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