Word: salvador
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...child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N. is an equal-opportunity guerrilla group, one of the few to allow young girls to bear arms alongside the boys...
...jail. "I'd rather see him locked up than dead," she says. Ramona Penuelas, a housewife who immigrated to America in search of a better life, plans to take her 14-year- old son back to Mexico once he gets out of juvenile detention. Zuela Menjivar is from El Salvador, and her dreams for a more prosperous life are so earnest that she has a subscription to FORTUNE magazine but no washing machine. She can't keep her 14-year-old away from the gangs. Once she screamed at him, "I'll send you to Salvador, where you can really...
When Aronson and Pavlov met in Washington on April 2, five weeks after Chamorro's victory in Nicaragua, it became clear the Soviets had learned just how the new game could be played. The talk now concerned El Salvador, and the Soviets deftly reversed roles. With Moscow supporting the F.M.L.N. rebels, Pavlov borrowed the arguments Aronson had advanced for nine months with respect to Nicaragua. Pavlov said he saw "no lack of desire on the part of the F.M.L.N. to negotiate" an end to its war with the Cristiani government. He asked that the U.S. "pressure" Cristiani to "speak seriously...
...equal value, the first Aronson-Pavlov session resulted in agreement on a mechanism for halting Sandinista arms shipments to the F.M.L.N. in El Salvador. Nicaragua wanted U.S. support in the U.N. for deployment of a peacekeeping force: the U.N. Observer Group in Central America (ONUCA). The group was supposed to monitor compliance with Article VI of Esquipulas, which prohibited the use of territory to aid guerrilla operations in neighboring states. The Sandinistas were eager to have ONUCA ensure that the contras in Honduras could not infiltrate Nicaragua. The U.S. insisted that ONUCA also monitor the clandestine flow of arms from...
...Honduran troops intercepted a van loaded with weapons destined for the F.M.L.N. in El Salvador. The shipment was part of what the world would soon learn was a major infusion of arms designed to fuel the guerrillas' "final offensive" in November. Most of the cache had been manufactured in the Soviet Union, and the van's driver admitted having run munitions from Nicaragua to El Salvador on numerous occasions during 1989. "We knew about many previous shipments," says Aronson, "but this was a smoking gun." Summoned to the State Department, Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin was presented with a packet...