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What is the opinion about the elections among those who will not be taking part, the members of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación National (F.M.L.N.)and the Frente Democrático Revolucionario-or, more simply, the guerrillas and their political allies? F.D.R. President Guillermo Ungo, whom I encountered on a flight from Amsterdam to Central America, told me the elections will be meaningless even in the event of a massive turnout. "Voting is obligatory, and the people know that if they don't have a stamp on their identification papers showing they voted, they...
Kissinger and company met with Calero and with Guillermo Ungo, the political leader of El Salvador's rebel coalition...
...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...
...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...