Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incident pointed up yet again that guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) continue to have the ability to paralyze the government of President Alfredo Cristiani and outwit the Salvadoran army. Just as the 1968 Tet offensive in Viet Nam forced Washington and the American public to question the U.S. position in Southeast Asia, the F.M.L.N.'s latest attacks have raised fundamental doubts about the whole U.S. approach to El Salvador...
...Sheraton siege brought the U.S. the closest it has ever been to exchanging fire with the Salvadoran guerrillas. It occurred just as the rebels' ten-day-old offensive, which had been fought in some of the capital's poorest neighborhoods, Soyapango, Cuidad Delgado and Mejicanos, seemed to be winding down. In the early hours of Sunday morning, hundreds of guerrillas were streaming out of Mejicanos' streets, badly battered by days of intensive government firepower. Where the rebels went, or how they managed to elude the government troops, no one seemed to know. But two days later, they re-emerged from...
...lobby. The guerrillas probably did not know that among the guests were the Green Berets and Joao Baena Soares, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, who was trying to work out a cease-fire. As the rebels took up residence in the Sheraton's VIP Tower, Salvadoran commandos hurriedly escorted Soares out of the hotel and drove him away in an armored car. The Green Berets were not so fortunate. Armed with M-16 rifles and grenade launchers, they barricaded themselves behind furniture and waited out the siege. "We're here against our will because...
...rebels periodically. "At times it was friendly, at times tense," said another American. Finally, the Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Gregorio Rosa Chavez, mediated the release of the occupants of the hotel and the escape of the rebels. The U.S. soldiers, though, refused to leave until the Salvadoran army had checked for booby traps and mines...
...entire operation was conducted by Salvadoran soldiers. Only at the end, when the Green Berets ran out, did the U.S. forces become involved. The actual number of U.S. commandos sent to El Salvador was thought to be small, although a much larger force was positioned outside the country...