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After ten years of a bloody civil war that has claimed some 70,000 lives, there are no eternal optimists left in El Salvador. Blind hope went out of fashion after then President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with failure in three meetings with the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Since the last talks in 1987, the two sides have dug in with renewed determination. Now, four months after Alfredo Cristiani, 41, succeeded Duarte as President, there is new talk of reconciliation. Representatives of the government and the F.M.L.N. met two weeks ago in Mexico City...
...government's requirement that the guerrillas lay down their arms as a prerequisite to serious negotiations. While insisting that the rebels must eventually surrender their weapons, he said it was "not necessarily a first step." The President, whose rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) has strong links to El Salvador's armed forces, also offered publicly for the first time to consider a drastic reduction in military manpower. If the talks succeed, he said, "there would be a demobilization of the armed forces. We don't believe there's a need for a 55,000-man army if there is peace...
...recovers economically." < Villalobos, who called for an end to U.S. military aid, voiced skepticism that the Bush Administration "would choose to continue indefinitely its support for the war." He also hoped for "proper relations" with the U.S. Last week the U.S. Senate voted to boost military aid to El Salvador by $5 million, to $90 million...
...television commercials and computerized voter files are spreading rapidly to other countries. American research firms are conducting focus groups for politicians worldwide." Like old-time vaudeville acts playing the Orpheum circuit, most of the top consultants have popped up somewhere in Latin America (primarily Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Argentina and Bolivia) since the U.S. elections last November...
FOOTNOTE: *Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, Alfredo Cristiani of El Salvador, Vinicio Cerezo of Guatemala, Jose Azcona del Hoyo of Honduras and Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua