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...farmers began a battle against a U.S.-backed junta that overthrew one military government and installed another. The chief antagonists in the war are the government's security forces and the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), a coalition of five rebel groups which is named for a Salvadoran populist leader...
...Large Vernon Walters conferred with Castro in Havana four months later. Both meetings were unproductive. As a good-will gesture, Smith contends, the Cubans also informed the U.S. in December that they had stopped shipping arms to Nicaragua, implying that they had turned off the weapons flow to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Washington responded by further lambasting the Havana regime in public. Smith insists that Washington's evidence for those ship ments was dubious. Says the former envoy: "If the guerrillas had received all the arms reported by U.S. intelligence, the Salvadoran army would be outgunned...
...Administration's case was not strengthened by the disclosure last week of the brutal torture of a Salvadoran volunteer for the Green Cross, an international relief agency. The worker had been arrested by Salvadoran security police on charges of providing supplies to the guerrillas. Imprisoned for several days in a secret, soundproof room at police headquarters in downtown San Salvador, he was stretched on a rotating wheel, beaten severely and forced to swallow lime. The victim was also strung up by his hands and feet while his genitals were squeezed in a wire vise...
...early in 1981 because it was convinced Nicaragua was abetting the leftist insurgency in El Salvador. Washington has pressured international lenders not to loan Nicaragua money. The U.S. says it wants to improve relations with the Sandinistas, but talks have repeatedly foundered over the question of aid to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Though State Department officials have denied that they are stalling, the U.S. doubts that negotiations with the Sandinistas would achieve anything. The U.S. may also be waiting to see what the contras, who may be receiving some of the $19 million in secret funds the Reagan Administration has earmarked...
...guerrilla assault in Morazan led the Salvadoran army to escalate the civil war through blanket bombing by Dragonfly jets and closer coordination with Honduran military forces. A military officer in El Salvador confirmed that the two armies were seeking to trap fleeing guerrillas along the border. Solorsa claimed that Honduran forces had actually crossed the border and fought the guerrillas...