Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government and representatives of the leftist guerrilla groups are unlikely until after the elections. Reason: mounting right-wing opposition to a negotiated settlement. Rebel leaders, of course, contend that the breakdown of the peace talks means the Salvadoran military is now effectively back in control. According to Ruben Zamora, the bearded vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the guerrilla movement's political arm, "Duarte has no power...
...meeting's end as each summed up the discussions. "The road to peace isn't an easy one," said Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, the government representative (President José Napoleón Duarte did not attend). Then, as the government side sped away, Rubén Zamora, the best-known member of the rebel delegation, climbed the steps to the microphones with three colleagues. Said Facundo Guardado, a senior guerrilla commander: "There is an oligarchical power that shares and applies the policies of the Reagan Administration, a power that is imposing itself against the will of the people...
Well, the whole way up I was very emotional and tense. And all the time we were in the town. You have to remember that I was taking complete responsibility for whatever happens there. One single mistake could have destroyed everything. I was even worried when [Ungo and Zamora] took the Red Cross car back to San Salvador. I stayed in radio contact the whole time, until they took the plane...
...know Mr. Ungo and Mr. Zamora very well. They acted the same as I expected them to act. I had never met any of the other people. They | were very hard at first, especially the woman [Nidia Diaz]. She was very tense and serious. But she changed as the hours passed...
...comandantes were quiet. The ideological [debate] was really between the two F.D.R. people [Ungo and Zamora] and ourselves. Zamora said, "There is no democratic election unless there is an absolute democracy." I said to him, "This is a totalitarian concept. You want everything now." They would not accept, for example, even the bureaucracy. They were thinking totally authoritarian. I said I didn't agree with that. I believed that we are in a process, so I said, "The case is comparing whether there have been changes between 1979 and today. You are not accepting this, and this is your...