Word: ungo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night before and repaired to the U.S. Ambassador's residence. From there they negotiated fruitlessly all day Saturday, using Monge as an intermediary, with a group of Salvadoran leftists located in the house where the meeting was to take place. The rebels had been assembled by Guillermo Manuel Ungo, the Mexico City-based president of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (F.D.R.), the umbrella political group allied with insurgents who are fighting the government of President Alvaro Maga...
...political figure who had the most to lose from last week's gamble was Salvadoran President Magaña. Yet Magaña was not present in Costa Rica. Just as the U.S. doubts whether Ungo can deliver his fighting comrades to the negotiating process, there is a question as to whether Magaña can maintain the support of the Salvadoran military and the right wing. Rightist elements in the military have repeatedly emphasized that they are fearful of being sold out by centrist politicians in the name of a "dialogue" with the rebels...
Complicating matters for the Administration is the fact that the Salvadoran insurgents have repeatedly said they are willing to negotiate. The most explicit offer came last October, when Guillermo Manuel Ungo, president of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, a group of five leftist parties now allied with the guerrillas, offered "unconditional" discussions with the Reagan Administration in order...
...violent climate, they and their allies can legitimately fear for their lives if they lay down their arms and join the country's fragile democratic political process. In 1981, for example, six Revolutionary Democratic Front leaders were murdered after a political rally in San Salvador. Says Leftist Spokesman Ungo: "We are not so stupid as to participate in elections that will result in our ending up in a cemetery...
...either a bold bid for peace or aclever propaganda ploy. Shadowed by bodyguards in the venerable Mexico City Foreign Correspondents Club, Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 51, president of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), a leftist political alliance that boycotted last March's elections, faced an overflow audience. Alongside was Ana Guadalupe Martínez, a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist-led organization that unites the country's five guerrilla factions. Ungo and Martínez announced that their groups had offered to begin unconditional direct negotiations with the Salvadoran government...