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Coming five days into a fierce offensive by leftist Salvadoran rebels which has reached the wealthiest areas of San Salvador, public sentiment had begun to swing to the rightist government under Alfredo Cristiani. Many saw the offensive, which killed hundreds of civilians and rebels, as a last-ditch effort to provoke outrages by a government closely identified in the past with the severest death squads in Latin America...
...internal struggle between the military and the [rightist] Arena Party. This could very well have been a way for the right wing to show their rivals in the party 'Who's in charge,'" Cox says...
...expected, the first-round leader was the crusading center-rightist * Fernando Collor de Mello, a former state governor. At week's end, two candidates who split the leftist vote were deadlocked for the second slot: Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Leonel Brizola...
...bomb attack on the headquarters of the left-leaning National Federation of Salvadoran Workers that killed ten people. The bombing was widely attributed to the right-wing death squads, which, after slumbering for several years, are once again marauding throughout El Salvador. The rebels hold Cristiani and his rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) government responsible for both the resurgence of the death squads and the arrest, injury or killing of more than 400 suspected guerrilla sympathizers in recent months. It is likely that last week's offensive was at least in part a response to the wave of death-squad...
...precise toll exacted by the drug lords is hard to certify: Colombian journalists are also targeted by leftist guerrillas and rightist death squads. In a new report titled "Murder: The Ultimate Censorship," the Inter American Press Association notes, "Nowhere is this struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light more clearly drawn than in Colombia." Some of the country's ablest reporters have fled into exile or gone into hiding, their voices effectively silenced. Others admit their news judgment has been affected...