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...been compounded by the atrocities of self-appointed death squads. One day last week a right-wing hit squad walked into a San Salvador restaurant at breakfast time and gunned down three young men. Another day, it was the left's turn. Members of the Ejército Popular de Liberación Faribundo Martí, the most active guerrilla group, executed 17 former members of the notorious paramilitary organization ORDEN in the village of San Francisco Morazán. Said a San Salvador journalist: "If you are not on the leftists' death list, you are surely...
...fight against terrorism is far from over. Since the coup, 1,700 leftist guerrillas and 124 soldiers and police have died in what the military calls "the dirty war." The government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme...
...guerrillas began fighting to bring back exiled Dictator Juan Domingo Perón. The two main factions: 1) the Montoneros (bush fighters), who originally supported Perón but turned increasingly leftward and broke away after his return to power in 1973; and 2) the smaller ERP (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, or People's Revolutionary Army), a Cuban-influenced outfit with Trotskyite ties...
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