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...crackle of gunfire from the Guazapa volcano in El Salvador's heartland cut through the din of New Year's Eve revelry. But the bursts were not the usual barrage of death. Instead, rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front were sending up a celebratory salvo on learning that their negotiators had at last arrived at a peace accord with the conservative government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
...goes according to plan, a Feb. 1 cease-fire will end the 12-year civil war that has claimed 75,000 lives and made El Salvador a synonym for bloodshed and human-rights abuses. Once disarmed, the rebels plan to form a political party, while the government will slash its armed forces from 56,000 to about...
Chile's foray into "capitalism" on the neo-liberal model began in 1973, when the democratically-elected left-wing government of Salvador Allende fell at the hand of a supposedly pro-free-market junta. The Soviet Union began its "market reforms" under Gorbachev in the mid-1980s. In the late 1980s, Boris Yeltsin and the mayor of Moscow supposedly endorsed and put into motion more radically free-market reforms...
...Salvador Walk Through Boston--with the Central America Solidarity Association (CASA). Call 492-8699. Starting at the Boston Common. Saturday...
...along with joy and hope, the surge of overseas parenting has created a backlash. Side by side with legitimate avenues of adoption, gray and black markets have sprung up where Third World brokers obtain children for foreign clients under questionable circumstances. From Manila to San Salvador, Bucharest to Brasilia, baby-sale scandals have caused Third World countries to tighten procedures and, in some cases, halt foreign adoption. Other countries are curtailing foreign adoptions to protect their image. Prosperous South Korea, which has sent nearly 120,000 abandoned children overseas since the Korean War, now considers foreign adoption applications only...