THE ARCE BATTALION COMMAND HAS REPORTED THAT ABOUT 50 PEASANTS OF VARIOUS AGES HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED BY TERRORISTS OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] IN SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT.
ACCORDING TO STATEMENTS MADE BY A SALVADORAN OFFICER TODAY, DESPITE THE CHANGE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SALVADORAN AIR FORCE, THE AIR FORCE WILL CONTINUE ITS NORMAL ACTIVITIES.
GOODBYE [AIR FORCE COMMANDER] GENERAL RAFAEL BUSTILLO, FALSE HOPE FOR MASS KILLERS.
A WAR BULLETIN INDICATES THAT ON 6 JANUARY AT 1625, FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TROOPS CLASHED WITH THE CAVALRY COMPANY IN FINCA SANTA ELENA, SANTA TECLA, NEAR SAN SALVADOR, KILLING THREE AND WOUNDING FOUR ENEMY TROOPS, INCLUDING THE PATROL LEADER WHO WAS AMONG THOSE KILLED.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY TODAY PREVENTED THE OCCUPATION OF CITIES IN THE EASTERN PART OF EL SALVADOR, WAGING STRONG CLASHES BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN, ACCORDING TO REPORTS BY MILITARY SOURCES.
THE DEPLOYMENT OF U.S. SHIPS, INCLUDING THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER "JOHN F. KENNEDY" AND THE CORVETTE "VIRGINIA" ALONG THE COLOMBIAN COAST YESTERDAY, SEEKING TO INTERCEPT DRUG TRAFFICKING ROUTES, COULD BE THE RESULT OF THREE POLICIES:
RICARDO ALFONSO CASTELLAR, MAYOR OF ACHI, IN THE NORTHERN DEPARTMENT OF BOLIVAR, WHO WAS KIDNAPPED ON 5 JANUARY, APPARENTLY BY ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) GUERRILLAS, WAS FOUND DEAD TODAY, ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES.
THE NATIONAL ARMY WAS INVOLVED IN NEW CLASHES WITHIN THE PAST FEW HOURS WITH FARC [REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA] AND THE ELN [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION] IN THE RURAL AREA OF YONDO IN ANTIOQUIA'S MIDDLE MAGDALENA REGION.
PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA HAS CONFIRMED THAT THE U.S. TROOPS THAT SURROUNDED OUR DIPLOMATIC MISSION IN PANAMA WERE WITHDRAWN AFTER A FORMER MINISTER SURNAMED CORDOVA LEFT THE EMBASSY.
AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT FORMER PERUVIAN DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL ENRIQUE LOPEZ ALBUJAR DIED TODAY IN LIMA AS A CONSEQUENCE OF A TERRORIST ATTACK.
HERE IS AN OFFICIAL DEFENSE MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE:
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS EXPRESSED SATISFACTION WITH THE INVESTIGATIONS IN THE CASE OF THE MURDERED JESUITS AND IS ENCOURAGING THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR THE PERPETRATORS OF THIS CRIME.
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN HAS ANNOUNCED THAT WITHIN THE NEXT 72 HOURS THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT WILL DISCLOSE THE NAMES OF THE INDIVIDUALS IMPLICATED IN THE MURDER OF SIX JESUITS, IF THE INVESTIGATIONS ARE NOT "HINDERED."
ON 10 JANUARY AT 1030, ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF RADIO VENCEREMOS, AN FMLN UNIT COMMEMORATED THIS OCCASION BY AMBUSHING A MILITARY VEHICLE TRANSPORTING NATIONAL GUARDSMEN FROM SESORI TO SAN MIGUEL.
A UCR [RADICAL CIVIC UNION] BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE COMMITTEE SPOKESMAN TODAY REPORTED THAT A UCR DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS IN BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE WAS "COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY A BOMB EXPLOSION."
POLICE ARE CARRYING OUT INTENSIVE OPERATIONS IN THE TOWN OF MOLINA IN THE SEVENTH REGION IN SEARCH OF A GANG OF ALLEGED EXTREMISTS WHO COULD BE LINKED TO A RECENTLY DISCOVERED ARSENAL.
OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT SEVERAL GUERRILLA ATTACKS AND HEAVY FIGHTING TOOK PLACE THE EVENING OF 9 JANUARY AND THIS MORNING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AND AS A RESULT, THREE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND THREE OTHERS INJURED.
GARY ELLIOT KENT JR, A U.S. CITIZEN BEING HELD IN PRISON WHILE AWAITING TRIAL ON DRUG-TRAFFICKING CHARGES, HAS BEEN STABBED TO DEATH IN THE PAVON PRISON CAMP, 18 KM SOUTHEAST OF THIS CAPITAL.
REGARDING THE JESUITS' CASE, THE FMLN STATES THAT:
ACCORDING TO THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, THE FARC [REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA] LAUNCHED A NEW OFFENSIVE TO RECOVER THE REGION OF MIDDLE MAGDALENA THAT WAS LOST TO GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA AND HIS MEN 5 YEARS AGO.
THE MRTA [TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT] TODAY DISTRIBUTED LEAFLETS CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MURDER OF FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER ENRIQUE LOPEZ ALBUJAR.
THE MNR REPORTS THE DISAPPEARANCE AND KIDNAPPING OF MNR ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES IN GUATEMALA CITY TODAY, 12 JANUARY.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT TODAY DEPLORED THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEADER HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES THIS MORNING IN GUATEMALA.
SALVADORAN VICE PRESIDENT FRANCISCO MERINO HAS DESCRIBED THE POSSIBLE RESUMPTION OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE REBELS AS POSITIVE.
SALVADORAN COLONEL SIGIFREDO OCHOA PEREZ TODAY SAID THAT THE MASTERMINDS OF THE SIX JESUIT PRIESTS' MURDER ARE NOT "SOLDIERS OR LIEUTENANTS," BUT ARE "MUCH HIGHER IN THE HIERARCHY."
THE U.S. CONGRESSMEN'S WORKTABLES ARE FILLED WITH SURPRISES.
IT WAS REPORTED IN BOGOTA TODAY THAT THE COLOMBIAN ARMY CAPTURED SUSPECTED PERUVIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER JOSE CARDENAS GUERRA ON A FARM IN PURIFICACION, IN CENTRAL COLOMBIA.
MARIO SOLORZANO MARTINEZ, LEADER OF GUATEMALA'S DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY, REPORTED TODAY THAT THE SALVADORAN POLITICAL LEADER HECTOR OQUELI, WHO WAS KIDNAPPED IN GUATEMALA, WAS FOUND DEAD.
REGARDING THE ASSASSINATION OF HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES, LEADER OF THE NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONVERGENCE AND SECRETARY FOR LATIN AMERICA OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL, IN GUATEMALA ON 12 JANUARY, WE STATE:
THE SALVADORAN OPPOSITION NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (MNR) TODAY DEMANDED THAT GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO "THOROUGHLY" INVESTIGATE THE ASSASSINATION OF MNR LEADER HECTOR OQUELI AND OF GUATEMALAN ATTORNEY GILDA FLORES.
WHAT WE HAD PREDICTED HAS OCCURRED.
THE NEW FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] PROPOSAL TO STOP FIGHTING PROVIDED THE U.S. CONGRESS SUSPENDS AID TO EL SALVADOR IS BLACKMAIL.
THE GUATEMALAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONDEMNED TODAY THE ASSASSINATION OF LEFTIST SALVADORAN LEADER HECTOR OQUELI AND GUATEMALAN POLITICAL LEADER GILDA FLORES.
GOVERNMENT MINISTER CARLOS MORALES SAID TODAY THAT A "FOREIGN COMMANDO" KILLED HECTOR OQUELI, LEADER OF THE SALVADORAN LEFTIST PARTY NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (MNR), AND GUATEMALAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEADER GILDA FLORES IN GUATEMALA.
ARMANDO CALDERON SOL, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA), THE RULING SALVADORAN PARTY, TODAY CALLED FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO ANY POSSIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MILITARY PERSONNEL IMPLICATED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JESUIT PRIESTS AND THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TODAY POSTPONED HIS TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES, WHICH WAS SCHEDULED FOR 16-23 JANUARY, UNTIL LATER THIS MONTH, ACCORDING TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY BY INFORMATION SECRETARY MAURICIO SANDOVAL.
IN AN ACTION THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED IN COLOMBIA'S HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS KIDNAPPED 31 PEOPLE IN THE STRIFE-TORN BANANA-GROWING REGION OF URABA, THE ANTIOUQIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE REPORTED TODAY.
THE PERUVIAN POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT AN ATTACK WITH EXPLOSIVES IN FRONT OF A BUILDING WHERE U.S. DIPLOMATS RESIDE IN THE MIRAFLORES NEIGHBORHOOD IN LIMA HAS LEFT ONE PERSON INJURED.
TEN TERRORISTS HURLED DYNAMITE STICKS AT U.S. EMBASSY FACILITIES IN THE MIRAFLORES DISTRICT, CAUSING SERIOUS DAMAGE BUT FORTUNATELY NO CASUALTIES.
NAPOLEON DUARTE, PRESIDENT OF EL SALVADOR, HAS REJECTED THE PROPOSAL FROM THE GUERRILLAS, WHO ACCEPTED THE ELECTIONS IF THEY WERE POSTPONED FOR 6 MONTHS AND HELD WITH DEMOCRATIC GUARANTEES.
EXPLOSIVES LOADED IN A SMALL TRUCK, WHICH WERE GOING TO BE FIRED AT THE SALVADORAN PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE, WERE DEACTIVATED AT NOON TODAY, A MILITARY SOURCE HAS REPORTED.
THE ANTICOMMUNIST ACTION ALLIANCE [ALIANZA DE ACCION ANTICOMUNISTA] REPORTS THE FOLLOWING TO THE HONDURAN PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR, AND TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN GENERAL:
ACCORDING TO MILITARY SOURCES AND PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED TODAY IN AYACUCHO FROM THE LA MAR AREA, 44 PEASANTS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN TWO TOWNSHIPS OF LA MAR PROVINCE, AYACUCHO DEPARTMENT.
ACCORDING TO A CLAIM MADE BY THE MINISTER OF INTERIOR, MIGRATION, AND JUSTICE, JUAN CARLOS DURAN, 1988 WAS A "POSITIVE YEAR," BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT MANAGED TO SCORE ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE ECONOMIC AREA AS WELL AS IN DEFENSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM EXISTING IN BOLIVIA.
THE CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTRY HAS CATEGORICALLY REJECTED THE U.S. DECISION TO CITE A TREATY SIGNED WITH CHILE IN 1914, TO TURN THE MURDER CASE OF FORMER CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTER ORLANDO LETELIER OVER TO AN INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF JURISTS.
A BOMB EXPLODED IN A PILMAIQUEN ALLEY DESTROYING WINDOWS AND WATER PIPES.
IT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED THAT TWO LEADERS OF THE LEFTIST PATRIOTIC UNION [UP] WERE KILLED BY UNKNOWN PERSONS NEAR RIO BLANCO MUNICIPALITY, TOLIMA DEPARTMENT.
PATRIOTIC UNION [UP] PRESIDENT BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA TODAY REVEALED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WARNED HIM OF A PLOT TO MURDER HIM AT EL DORADO AIRPORT UPON HIS RETURN FROM CUBA.
FOUR OFFICIALS WHO HAD STARTED TO INVESTIGATE THE KILLING OF 12 JUDICIAL OFFICIALS NEAR LA ROCHELA, IN SANTANDER DEPARTMENT HAVE RESIGNED BECAUSE OF THREATS.
A SEARCH IS ON FOR AN EPL [POPULAR LIBERATION ARMY] UNIT THAT YESTERDAY INCINERATED FIVE MEMBERS OF A NATIONAL POLICE PATROL IN [WORD INDISTINCT], RISARALDA DEPARTMENT.
MILITARY SOURCES FROM AYACUCHO HAVE REPORTED TO EFE THAT THREE OFFICERS AND SEVEN SOLDIERS OF THE PERUVIAN ARMY, AND 15 MEMBERS OF THE MAOIST GUERRILLA SHINING PATH MOVEMENT TODAY DIED IN COMBAT, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUANCAVELICA.
THREE WOMEN SURVIVORS HAVE REPORTED TO THE COURTS IN THE PERUVIAN CITY OF AYACUCHO REGARDING THE MASSACRE--FOR WHICH THEY HOLD THE ARMY RESPONSIBLE--OF NEARLY 80 PEOPLE, INCLUDING MISSING PEOPLE, IN THE TOWN OF CAYARA.
THE PRO-MAOIST SHINING PATH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION PERPETRATED ONE OF ITS MOST SERIOUS ATTACKS IN RECENT MEMORY IN THE TOWN OF ANDAHUA, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERN AREQUIPA DEPARTMENT.
ON A NATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION NETWORK LAST NIGHT, THE GOVERNMENT REVEALED THE RESULTS OF A NUMBER OF INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MURDER OF MSGR ARNULFO ROMERO; HOWEVER, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID AT NOON TODAY ONLY THE FOURTH CRIMINAL COURT JUDGE CAN DETERMINE WHETHER THE EVIDENCE AGAINST ANY PERSON IS LEGAL:
JUSTICE MINISTER JULIO ALFREDO SAMAYOA SAID TODAY ALL THE EVIDENCE GATHERED BY THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMISSION DEMONSTRATES THAT DR ANTONIO REGALADO WAS THE PERPETRATOR OF THE MURDER OF MSGR ROMERO.
THE PUBLIC SECURITY FORCES (FUSEP) HAVE DECLARED A STATE OF MAXIMUM ALERT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN VIEW OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUBVERSIVE ATTACKS ON POLICE STATIONS, A SPOKESMAN FOR THAT INSTITUTION HAS REPORTED.
THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE HAS REPORTED THAT THE CHIEFS OF STATE OF 21 COUNTRIES FROM THE AMERICAS AND EUROPE, AMONG THEM THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP OF EIGHT, HAVE EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT RAUL ALFONSIN "IN VIEW OF THE THREATS AGAINST ARGENTINE DEMOCRACY" RESULTING FROM AN ATTACK PERPETRATED BY A SUBVERSIVE GROUP.
TWO INDIVIDUALS WEARING MILITARY UNIFORMS AND CARRYING SUBMACHINEGUNS EARLY THIS MORNING ENTERED THE INFANT HEALTH CENTER OF MERCEDES, 240 KM FROM CORRIENTES, AND TOOK LARGE QUANTITIES OF BLOOD, SERUM AND MEDICINE.
SEVEN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND SEVERAL WERE WOUNDED BY A BOMB WHEN A GROUP OF NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY [ELN] REBELS AMBUSHED A MILITARY CONVOY IN SARAVENA, ARAUCA DEPARTMENT.
INTERIOR MINISTER JUAN SORIA DIAZ HAS DENIED THAT TWO DEA [DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY] HELICOPTERS HAVE BEEN DOWNED BY DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN TINGO MARIA.
ALFREDO CRISTIANI, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE SALVADORAN NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA), WARNED TODAY THAT HE IS NOT WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) IF HE WINS THE UPCOMING 19 MARCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS TODAY THREATENED TO MURDER INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE 19 MARCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IF THEY DO NOT RESIGN FROM THEIR POSTS.
MAJOR ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON YESTERDAY STATED: "I HAVE WITHSTOOD THE LOWEST SLANDER FOR 8 YEARS.
RADIO FARABUNDO MARTI IN SPANISH TO EL SALVADOR AT 2200 GMT ON 5 FEBRUARY BROADCASTS APPROXIMATELY 10 MINUTES OF BATTLE REPORTS COVERING THE PERIOD 29 JANUARY TO 4 FEBRUARY.
ATTENTION, MUCH ATTENTION: THE FOLLOWING IS A CALL TO THOSE WHO ARE HELPING TO ORGANIZE THE ELECTIONS.
A BOMB BLAST DAMAGED A TELEPHONE OFFICE TODAY IN THE NORTHERN CITY OF SAN PEDRO SULA.
THE CINCHONERO POPULAR LIBERATION MOVEMENT, WHICH ON 25 JANUARY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING FORMER HONDURAN ARMED FORCES CHIEF GENERAL GUSTAVO ALVAREZ, CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY TODAY FOR DETONATING A BOMB AT TELEPHONE COMPANY OFFICES IN SAN PEDRO SULA, NORTHERN HONDURAS.
COLOMBIAN INDUSTRIALIST NORMAL ECHEVARRIA AND U.S. BUSINESSMAN MICHAEL REYFF, KIDNAPPED 11 DAYS AGO IN MEDELLIN, WERE RESCUED TODAY.
TWO VEHICLES WERE DESTROYED AND AN UNIDENTIFIED OFFICE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK MINISTRY WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSION OF TWO BOMBS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
THE NICARAGUAN FOREIGN MINISTRY HAS DENIED THE CHARGES THAT THE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT HAS LEVELED AGAINST THE NICARAGUAN EMBASSY IN TEGUCIGALPA REGARDING THE 7 JANUARY ASSASSINATION IN TEGUCIGALPA OF MANUEL RUGAMA, KNOWN AS COMMANDER AURELIANO, THE SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES IN HONDURAS.
BUENOS AIRES POLICE CHIEF WALTER JURADO HAS CONFIRMED THAT MILITARY PERSONNEL OF THE VILLA MARTELLI 601ST REGIMENT THIS MORNING HEARD SOME SHOTS NEAR THE REGIMENT.
THE BODY OF LIEUTENANT JOSE LUIS CANALES WAS REMOVED SHORTLY AFTER 1400 THIS AFTERNOON.
PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO RESHUFFLED HIS CABINET TODAY, APPOINTING FIVE NEW MINISTERS AND RECONFIRMING EIGHT FOR THE FINAL PHASE OF HIS TERM, ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL DECREE.
MAOIST SHINING PATH GUERRILLAS HAVE KILLED THE MAYOR OF THE SMALL TOWN OF HOSTIGAL, AS WELL AS TWO PEASANTS, THE LOCAL PRESS REPORTED TODAY.
A SPECTACULAR OPERATION WAS CONDUCTED YESTERDAY NOON WHEN A 39-MAN POLICE PATROL OF THE SANTA LUCIA DETACHMENT, REINFORCED BY ANTI-NARCOTICS POLICE, SURROUNDED THE UCHIZA AIRPORT AND WAITED FOR THE ARRIVAL OF TWO COLOMBIAN LIGHT AIRPLANES THAT WERE SUPPOSEDLY CARRYING DRUGS.
SALVADORAN COLONEL CIRO LOPEZ, COMMANDER OF THE "EL PARAISO" GARRISON, WHICH WAS ATTACKED BY THE GUERRILLAS ON 13 SEPTEMBER, DENIED TODAY THAT THREE U.S. MILITARY ADVISERS HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE CLASH WITH THE REBELS, CONTRARY TO WHAT THE U.S. MEDIA AND PRESIDENT HAVE STATED.
RADIO VENCEREMOS IN SPANISH TO EL SALVADOR AT 0000 GMT ON ON 29 MARCH BROADCASTS APPROXIMATELY 6 MINUTES OF WAR REPORTS.
ORLANDO QUITENO, SPOKESMAN FOR THE LEMPA RIVER HYDROELECTRIC EXECUTIVE COMMISSION, HAS REPORTED THAT IN THE PAST FEW HOURS THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS HAVE DESTROYED AT LEAST 10 POWER TRANSMISSION TOWERS, DAMAGING SEVEN HIGH VOLTAGE LINES IN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
ELITE UNITS OF THE GUATEMALAN ARMY THIS AFTERNOON BEGAN TO SURROUND PAVON PRISON, WHICH SINCE 26 MARCH HAS BEEN IN THE HANDS OF SOME 200 PRISONERS WHO ARE HOLDING MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE HOSTAGE.
INTERIOR MINISTRY UNDER SECRETARY WALTER COSTAS BADANI HAS STATED THAT BOLIVIAN INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE YET TO DETECT THE PRESENCE OF SHINING PATH TERRORISTS IN BOLIVIA.
THREE MEMBERS OF THE GANG CALLED THE OWLS WERE ARRESTED IN MEDELLIN IN CONNECTION WITH THE ATTACK ON SENATOR ERNESTO SAMPER AND PATRIOTIC UNION LEADER JOSE ANTEQUERA.
ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL SOURCES, THE HOLY WEEK TRUCE WAS APPARENTLY BROKEN OVER THE WEEKEND BY SEVERAL REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA (FARC) FRONTS IN ANTIOQUIA, META, AND HUILA DEPARTMENTS.
A BOMB EXPLODED TODAY IN A LIMA RESTAURANT, AND A SECOND DEVICE THAT HAD BEEN PLACED IN THE SAME ESTABLISHMENT WAS DEACTIVATED BY THE PERUVIAN NATIONAL POLICE.
RADIO VENCEREMOS IN SPANISH TO EL SALVADOR AT 0000 GMT ON 28 MARCH BROADCASTS TWO MILITARY REPORTS LASTING APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES.
A REPORT FROM SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT STATES THAT FMLN ANTIAIRCRAFT UNITS AMBUSHED A SALVADORAN AIR FORCE HELICOPTER IN ARENALES CANTON AT 1700 GMT ON 29 MARCH, AS IT WAS TRAVELING FROM USULUTAN TO SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT.
ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND THREE OTHERS INJURED TONIGHT AS THE RESULT OF A BOMB EXPLOSION IN DOWNTOWN SAN SALVADOR.
DIEGO MONTANA, ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE PATRIOTIC UNION [UP], TOLD EFE TODAY THAT ONLY THE PARTICIPATION OF THE SIMON BOLIVAR NATIONAL GUERRILLA COORDINATING BOARD (CNG) IN THE PEACE TALKS COULD GUARANTEE A POLITICAL SOLUTION IN COLOMBIA.
JUSTICE MINISTER CESAR DELGADO BARRETO SAID TODAY THAT THE TRAGIC INCIDENT AT UCHIZA DEMONSTRATES THAT THERE IS AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN DRUG TRAFFICKERS AND TERRORISTS, AND THAT THE COUNTRY SHOULD MAKE A MORE INTENSE EFFORT AGAINST THEM.
A CARGO TRAIN RUNNING FROM LIMA TO LOROHIA WAS DERAILED BEFORE DAWN TODAY AFTER HITTING A DYNAMITE CHARGE.
PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI SAID POSITIVE RESULTS WERE OBTAINED DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT IN COSTA RICA.
RADIO CADENA YSKL'S NEWS CENTER RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] SPOKESMEN.
ARMY GENERAL JAIME RUIZ BARRERA REPORTS THAT OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS THE ARMY HAS CONDUCTED OPERATIONS IN SOUTHWESTERN ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT DURING WHICH CLASHES HAVE OCCURRED BETWEEN ARMY TROOPS AND ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION, ELN, AND PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY, EPL, GUERRILLAS.
EL SALVADOR'S LARGEST ORGANIZATION OF LABOR UNIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS TODAY REGRETTED THE LEFTIST GUERRILLAS' DECISION TO SUSPEND THEIR DIALOGUE WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND EXPRESSED HOPE THAT THIS MEASURE IS NOT "IRREVOCABLE."
LEADERS OF THE MAIN OPPOSITION LABOR UNIONS IN EL SALVADOR TODAY VOICED SUPPORT FOR THE GUERRILLAS' DECISION TO SUSPEND DIALOGUE WITH THE GOVERNMENT UNTIL IT COMMITS ITSELF TO GUARANTEEING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATIONS.
RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, AND UNION LEADERS HEADED THE FUNERAL MARCH OF THE 10 UNION MEMBERS KILLED IN THE DYNAMITE ATTACK AGAINST FENASTRAS [SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION] HEADQUARTERS, LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF SAN SALVADOR, ONLY 200 METERS FROM THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
COLONEL MAURICIO ERNESTO VARGAS, COMMANDER OF THE 3RD INFANTRY BRIGADE, REPORTED ON 31 OCTOBER THAT BETWEEN JANUARY AND SEPTEMBER, THE ARMY HAD INFLICTED 800 CASUALTIES ON THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] AND SEIZED 300 WEAPONS IN THE EASTERN AREA OF THE COUNTRY.
THE ECUADORAN INSURGENT GROUP "FREE HOMELAND MONTONEROS" (MPL) TODAY REITERATED THAT IT WILL NOT ABANDON ITS ARMED STRUGGLE.
DURING A NEWS CONFERENCE ATTENDED BY FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS, PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA SAID HERE TODAY THAT HE SUPPORTS THE CONSTRUCTION "OF NOT ONE BUT FIVE" INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAYS IN THE AMAZONIAN REGION.
THE HONDURAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE COMMITTEE (CODEH) SAID TODAY THAT VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS GUARANTEES CONTINUE IN THIS COUNTRY AND DENOUNCED SUMMARY EXECUTIONS, POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS, AND INTIMIDATORY CAMPAIGNS AGAINST PEOPLE'S LEADERS.
IT WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED TODAY THAT ON 10 MARCH ALLEGED SHINING PATH MEMBERS MURDERED FOUR MEMBERS OF A FAMILY IN SANTA MARIA DEL VALLE, HUANUCO DEPARTMENT.
DRUG TRAFFICKER JOSE GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, AKA "THE MEXICAN," HAS DENIED HE REQUESTED, THROUGH A LETTER, AN ALLIANCE WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA (FARC).
WHAT BEGAN AS A SEARCH FOR A WEAPONS CACHE BECAME A MYSTERY THAT WOULD RIVAL ANY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' STORIES.
ARMY AND NATIONAL POLICE TROOPS ARE CONDUCTING OPERATIONS IN THE RURAL AREA OF EL PENON MUNICIPALITY, CUNDINAMARCA DEPARTMENT, TO PURSUE THE ARMED GROUP THAT KILLED FIVE PEASANTS IN THE AREA.
FOUR PEOPLE KILLED, FIVE INJURED, AND LOSSES ESTIMATED TO BE IN THE MILLIONS ARE THE RESULT OF A CAR BOMB EXPLOSION IN BOGOTA, THE POLICE REPORTED TO RADIO CADENA NACIONAL.
GUATEMALA'S CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION "SECRET ANTICOMMUNIST ARMY" (ESA) HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR WEDNESDAY'S TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST THE RESIDENCE AND OFFICE OF ALEKSANDR TRUSHIN, TASS CORRESPONDENT IN GUATEMALA.
THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO CARRY OUT A "CONSTITUTIONAL COUP" TO CONSIST OF TRANSFERRING PART OF ITS POWER TO THE ARMED FORCES TO PHYSICALLY ELIMINATE PROGRESSIVE SECTORS, COLOMBIAN PATRIOTIC UNION (UP) LEADER BERNARDO JARAMILLO TOLD THE MEDIA.
TODAY THE NATIONAL CENTER SECURITY ZONE COMMAND DENIED THE KILLING OF PEASANTS IN CAYARA, AYACUCHO.
WE INFORM THE WORKING CLASS, STUDENTS, AND SALVADORAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL: AS OF 16 MARCH, THE DATE SET BY THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] TO BEGIN ITS NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION STOPPAGE, ALL OUR MILITIA UNITS WILL BE IN FIGHTING SPIRITS AND WILL ATTACK TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES SUCH AS TAXIS, MINIBUSES, PICKUP TRUCKS, GOVERNMENT VEHICLES, BUSES, [WORDS INDISTINCT], AND ALL VEHICLES THAT DO NOT ABIDE BY THE STOPPAGE.
THIS MORNING, JUST 4 DAYS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, GUERRILLAS STAGED A 6-HOUR ATTACK ON SEVERAL MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE NORTHERN CHALATENANGO DEPARTMENT.
AGRICULTURE MINISTER JAIME DE LA SOTTA AND FOREIGN MINISTER HERNAN FELIPE ERRAZURIZ WILL LEAVE TONIGHT FOR THE UNITED STATES IN AN ATTEMPT TO ACHIEVE THE LIFTING OF THE BAN ON IMPORTED CHILEAN FRUITS.
MANUEL FELIU, CHAIRMAN OF THE INDUSTRY AND TRADE CONFEDERATION, HAS ESTIMATED THAT THE LOSSES CAUSED BY THE ACT OF ECONOMIC TERRORISM AGAINST OUR COUNTRY WILL BE MORE THAN $880 MILLION.
FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] URBAN COMMANDOS DESTROYED A TRUCK OWNED BY TROPICAL SODA COMPANY AT APPROXIMATELY 0730 TODAY ON THE MAIN ROAD OF DOLORES NEIGHBORHOOD.
URBAN GUERILLAS ATTACKED THE PRESIDENCY IN SAN SALVADOR WITH MORTAR FIRE TONIGHT, CAUSING SOME DAMAGE BUT NO CASUALTIES, ACCORDING TO INITIAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
A GUARD WAS WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK STAGED TONIGHT BY URBAN GUERRILLA COMMANDOS ON THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE IN SOUTHERN SAN SALVADOR, OFFICIAL SOURCES CONFIRMED TO AFP.
REPORTS FROM SAN SALVADOR INDICATE THAT AT 1910 TONIGHT, 15 MARCH, FIGHTING AND EXPLOSIONS CONTINUED IN VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS AND SECTIONS OF THE CITY.
THE PEACE PROPOSAL PRESENTED BY THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] GENERAL COMMAND SPARKED A DEBATE OF UNPRECEDENTED BROADNESS AND DURATION TO ATTAIN A NATIONAL AGREEMENT TO SOLVE THE CONFLICT.
IN THE PRESENCE OF SOME 50 MEMBERS OF THE PARTIES THAT COMPRISE IT, THE CENTER-RIGHT POLITICAL COALITION COALICION POLITICA DE CENTRO DERECHA HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY FORMED.
A GUERRILLA UNIT THAT OPERATED IN THE MERENDON MOUNTAIN RANGE, IN THE OMOA HILLS AREA, 100 KM NORTHWEST OF SAN PEDRO SULA ON THE GUATEMALAN BORDER, WAS DISMANTLED OVER THE WEEKEND BY COMBINED NATIONAL ARMY UNITS.
DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL CARLOS EUGENIO VIDES CASANOVA TODAY URGED THE POPULATION TO VOTE IN THE 19 MARCH ELECTIONS DESPITE THE RISKS POSED BY THE GUERRILLA BOYCOTT.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] HAS DECIDED TO COMBINE THE PEOPLE'S REJECTION OF THE 19 MARCH ELECTIONS WITH AN INTENSIFICATION OF ACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE NATION.
WE ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU A REPORT ON SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED A FEW MINUTES AGO IN THE CENTER OF SAN SALVADOR.
ON THE EVE OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, MORE THAN 80 PERCENT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN SAN SALVADOR IS PARALYZED WHILE A MAJORITY OF THE RESIDENTS ARE NOT RECEIVING POTABLE WATER OR ELECTRIC POWER.
ONLY HOURS BEFORE TOMORROW'S ELECTIONS BEGIN AT 0700, BEFORE THE PEOPLE BEGIN CASTING THEIR VOTES TO ELECT A NEW PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] CONTINUES WITH ITS TRANSPORTATION STOPPAGE AND ITS ATTACKS ON MILITARY GARRISONS.
ARMY HELICOPTERS FIRED ROCKETS THIS MORNING ON SAN RAMON NEIGHBORHOOD IN SAN SALVADOR, WHERE SOME 100 GUERRILLAS ATTACKED A CIVIL DEFENSE POST.
OVER 20 BOMB EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD IN THE PREDAWN AND EARLY MORNING HOURS TODAY IN SAN SALVADOR BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WERE TO BEGIN AT 0700 (1300 GMT).
THE DICTATORSHIP HAS CARRIED OUT ANOTHER COWARDLY ACTION.
(CLANDESTINE) RADIO FARABUNDO MARTI IN SPANISH TO EL SALVADOR AT 1311 GMT ON 19 MARCH BROADCASTS APPROXIMATELY 35 MINUTES OF MILITARY REPORTS, INCLUDING CLASHES BETWEEN THE SALVADORAN ARMY AND FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) GUERRILLAS THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE EVE OF THE SALVADORAN ELECTIONS AND ARE TAKING PLACE ON ELECTION DAY ITSELF, AND DETAILS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSPORTATION STOPPAGE ON THE ELECTION PROCESS.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY ACCEPTED RESPONSIBILITY THIS MORNING FOR THE DEATH OF TWO REPORTERS WHO WERE SHOT BY SOLDIERS IN THE PAST FEW HOURS IN THE CAPITAL AND IN THE EASTERN SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT.
AFTER A 1ST HOUR IN WHICH THERE WAS A VERY SMALL TURNOUT AT THE POLLS, THE NUMBER OF SALVADORANS GOING TO VOTE IN THE CAPITAL CITY AND OTHER TOWNS IS INCREASING.
WE HAVE JUST CONFIRMED THAT DUTCH REPORTER CORNELL LAGROW OF A DUTCH TELEVISION STATION WAS KILLED THIS MORNING AS HE WAS COVERING A SKIRMISH IN THE TOWN OF SAN FRANCISCO JAVIER, USULUTAN DEPARTMENT.
DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL EUGENIO VIDES CASANOVA HAS TOLD THE NEWS MEDIA 12 GUERRILLAS AND 1 SOLDIER WERE KILLED WHILE 15 SOLDIERS WERE WOUNDED DURING THE EARLY MORNING BATTLES THAT TOOK PLACE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF EL SALVADOR.
GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET HAS SIGNIFICANTLY CURBED HIS CRITICISMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, BUT HAS STEPPED UP HIS ATTACKS ON THE CHILEAN OPPOSITION, IN CONNECTION WITH THE TEMPORARY EMBARGO THAT THE UNITED STATES LEVIED ON CHILEAN FRUIT EXPORTS.
COLONEL ALEXANDER MENDEZ, COMMANDER OF THE 4TH INFANTRY BRIGADE, THE MAIN GARRISON IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY, HAS TOLD ACAN-EFE THAT OVER 500 GUERRILLA FIGHTERS ATTACKED TWO TOWNS IN CHALATENANGO DEPARTMENT HOURS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS STARTED.
JOSE RICARDO PERDOMO, CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL ELECTORAL COUNCIL OF EL SALVADOR, ANNOUNCED THE END OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW WITH TASS.
A BOMB PLANTED NEAR THE U.S. EMBASSY IN THIS CAPITAL WAS DEFUSED TODAY BY THE POLICE.
THE DAY OF FIGHTING THAT RESULTED IN ENORMOUS ABSTENTION DURING THE 19 MARCH ELECTIONS REPRESENTED AN OVERWHELMING VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE.
FAR FROM ACHIEVING A TRUCE THE DAY THE RECENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WERE HELD, A GENERAL INCREASE IN VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WAS THE RESULT OF THE CIVIL WAR IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES AND THE MILITARY HAVE SUBMERGED EL SALVADOR FOR THE PAST 9 YEARS.
HIS NAME STANDS AT THE TOP OF THE HIT LIST OF THE COLOMBIAN DEATH SQUAD: OSCAR DUENAS, MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PATRIOTIC UNION (UP) AND CITY COUNSELOR OF TUNJA, NORTH OF THE CAPITAL OF BOGOTA.
TWO NEW SHOOTOUTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE PAST FEW MINUTES AT THE PAVON PRISON FARM, WHERE INMATES MUTINIED SUNDAY AFTER RAIDING THE ARMORY.
A NICARAGUAN DELGATION WILL LEAVE FOR HONDURAS ON TUESDAY TO NEGOTIATE THE RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY 1,000 CIVILIANS WHO WERE KIDNAPPED BY THE "CONTRAS" MORE THAN 5 YEARS AGO, A PARLIAMENTARY SOURCE HAS ANNOUNCED.
A LOCAL RADIO STATION HAS REPORTED THAT ALLEGED SHINING PATH MEMBERS AND MERCENARIES AT THE SERVICE OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS TODAY ATTACKED AN IMPORTANT POLICE STATION IN THE JUNGLE DISTRICT OF UCHIZA, AND THAT THERE MAY BE MANY CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES.
THIS IS COMMUNIQUE NO. 011-89 RELEASED BY THE INTERIOR MINISTRY WHICH STATES:
ORLANDO QUITENO, SPOKESMAN OF THE LEMPA RIVER HYDROELECTRIC EXECUTIVE COMMISSION, HAS REPORTED THAT IN THE PAST FEW HOURS, THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS DESTROYED AT LEAST 10 POWER TRANSMISSION TOWERS, DAMAGING SEVEN HIGH VOLTAGE LINES IN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
THE FOLLOWING IS A LAST MINUTE REPORT.
A REPORT FROM SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT STATES THAT FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT ANTIAIRCRAFT UNITS AMBUSHED A SALVADORAN AIR FORCE HELICOPTER IN ARENALES CANTON AT 1700 GMT ON 29 MARCH THAT WAS TRAVELING FROM USULUTAN TO SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT.
THE HONDURAN ARMED FORCES INTELLIGENCE CORPS YESTERDAY THWARTED "OPERATION SUMMER 89," WHICH WAS A SANDINIST PEOPLE'S ARMY [EPS] PLAN TO SABOTAGE AND PILLAGE TOWNS ON THE HONDURAS-NICARAGUA BORDER.
MR MANUEL CEPEDA [SPELLING OF NAME AS RECEIVED], MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CC OF THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY (PCC) AND EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE VOZ NEWSPAPER, VISITED THIS COUNTRY FROM MARCH 28 TO MARCH 31.
THE FUTURE ARENA [NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE] GOVERNMENT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE THE RESULTS OF THE 19 MARCH ELECTION, MORE SO THAN IN ANY OTHER PAST ELECTION, DO NOT REPRESENT THE WISHES OF THE MAJORITY OF THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
THE BOMB ATTACK ON THE CHILEAN--U.S. CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN SANTIAGO HAS CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA SAAVEDRA TODAY CRITICIZED THE RATIFICATION OF A BILATERAL MILITARY AID AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HONDURAS BECAUSE, HE SAID, IT DEALS A BLOW TO THE PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN EL SALVADOR IN FEBRUARY.
A MILITARY PATRIOTIC SERVICE [SMP] YOUTH WAS KILLED AND A SECOND ONE INJURED DURING A HONDURAN ARMY ATTACK AT EL PASO NARANJO, SOMOTILLO, CHINANDEGA DEPARTMENT.
COMMANDER [BAYARDO] ARCE HAS DECRIBED THE OPPOSITION'S TRIP TO GUATEMALA AS A "BLUNDER" AND SAID THAT IT WOULD BE REGRETTABLE IF THE POLITICAL PARTIES WENT TO THAT MEETING TO LOOK FOR A "LEADER" TO CONFRONT THE SANDINIST NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FSLN] FROM AMONG THOSE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY CHIEFTAINS.
THE MARCH ORGANIZED BY FORMER ECUADORAN PRESIDENT LEON FEBRES CORDERO AND HIS SUPPORTERS HAS TAKEN PLACE IN GUAYAQUIL WITHOUT MAJOR INCIDENT BECAUSE THE SMALL GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS WAS CONTROLLED BY MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE POSTED ALONG 9 OCTOBER AVENUE, THE SITE OF THE DISTURBANCE.
THE GROUP OF 14 OPPOSITION PARTY DELEGATES HAVE RETURNED FROM GUATEMALA, WHERE THEY SIGNED AN ALLIANCE AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES AND HOSTED A NEWS CONFERENCE AT THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS CLUB IN MANAGUA.
[SERTOV] POLITICAL LIFE IN COLOMBIA IS STILL LINKED WITH VIOLENCE.
PRESIDENT BARCO VIGOROUSLY DEFENDED COLOMBIA'S IMAGE REGARDING ITS STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING, TERRORISM, AND COMMON CRIME IN A SPEECH HE GAVE IN WASHINGTON THIS MORNING.
BARRY MELBOURNE SHINING PATH (THE PERUVIAN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION) PARTICIPATED IN A MEETING THAT WAS HELD IN A TUCUMAN CITY HOTEL.
THE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED JOSE LUIS FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ, A COLOMBIAN CITIZEN, 28, WHO IS SUSPECTED OF BEING A MEMBER OF THE COLOMBIAN M-19 GUERRILLA GROUP.
MULTI-PARTY TALKS ON INCORPORATING COLOMBIA'S M-19 REBEL GROUP INTO CIVILIAN LIFE WOUND UP TUESDAY WITH AGREEMENT THAT THE PROCESS MUST BE COMPLETED BY JUNE 30.
HONDURAN GUERRILLAS CLAIMED CREDIT TODAY FOR THE ATTACK ON A U.S. ARMY CONVOY ON 11 APRIL IN NORTHERN HONDURAS IN WHICH ONE PERSON WAS KILLED, THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE WOUNDED, AND ONE VEHICLE DESTROYED.
A SELF-NAMED ULTRA-RIGHT-WING COMMANDO UNIT, THE "GERARDO BARRIOS CIVIC FORCE" [FUERZA CIVICA GERARDO BARRIOS] TONIGHT CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DYNAMITE ATTACK THAT KILLED SALVADORAN ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERTO GARCIA TODAY.
THE LEFTIST MORAZANIST PATRIOTIC FRONT TODAY SAID THAT IT KILLED A U.S. SOLDIER AND WOUNDED "THREE OR FOUR MORE" DURING AN ATTACK ON A MILITARY CONVOY IN NORTHERN YORO DEPARTMENT ON 11 APRIL.
THREE OFFICIALS OF BRASPETRO [BRAZILIAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL, INC.
WE HAVE NOW UNFOLDED OUR MILITARY MAP, ON WHICH WE HAVE PLACED A SMALL BLACK CIRCLE AT EACH COMBAT SITE, A RED CIRCLE AT THE SITE OF EACH ACT OF SABOTAGE, AND A GREEN CIRCLE FOR EACH AMBUSH OF MILITARY VEHICLES.
RECENTLY COMRADE MANUEL CEPEDA, MEMBER OF THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE POLITBURO, VISITED CZECHOSLOVAKIA; WE ASKED HIM FOR AN INTERVIEW.
PERSONS BELIEVED TO BE GUERRILLAS TODAY SHOT INFANTRY COLONEL JOSE LINZANDRO GARCIA ARANDI, DEPUTY COMMANDER OF HUEHUETENANGO MILITARY ZONE IN NORTHWESTERN GUATEMALA.
THE INSURGENT GROUP ALFARO LIVES, DAMN IT (AVC) TODAY REAFFIRMED THE SUSPENSION OF ITS ARMED ACTIVITIES AND BLAMED EXTREME RIGHTIST GROUPS FOR SEVERAL ATTACKS AND ASSAULTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS.
PRESIDENT DUARTE SAID THIS AFTERNOON THAT PRESIDENT- ELECT ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S PEACE PROPOSAL DESERVES RESPECT AND THAT ONE MUST HOPE THAT IT WILL PRODUCE RESULTS THAT WILL BENEFIT THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
PRESIDENT-ELECT ALFREDO CRISTIANI YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED CHANGES IN THE ARMY'S STRATEGY TOWARD URBAN TERRORISM AND THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT'S [FMLN] DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE TO ISOLATE THE NEW GOVERNMENT ABROAD.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY TODAY LAUNCHED A MILITARY OPERATION IN SAN SALVADOR, WHICH INCLUDED VEHICLE SEARCHES, TO PREVENT A "TERRORIST" PLAN THAT TRADE UNIONS WILL SUPPOSEDLY CARRY OUT TOMORROW FOLLOWING GUERRILLA ORDERS.
HONDURAN WORKERS TODAY DEMANDED THE EXPULSION OF U.S. TROOPS AND NICARAGUAN CONTRAS FROM THE COUNTRY, AND THEY DEMANDED HIGHER WAGES, MEASURES TO CONTROL INFLATION, AND THE CREATION OF NEW JOBS.
PROGRESSIVE VOICES IN EL SALVADOR ARE A TRUE ALTERNATIVE TO THE RIGHT-WING TERRORIST PATH.
THE UP TO DATE NEWS TEAM WAS ATTACKED TODAY BY U.S. EMBASSY EMPLOYEES AS THE NEWSMEN WERE COVERING A REPORT ON THE EXPLOSION OF TWO BOMBS IN A BUILDING BELONGING TO THE EMBASSY.
SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS TODAY DENIED HAVING CARRIED OUT A DYNAMITE ATTACK AGAINST A U.S. EMBASSY WAREHOUSE IN SAN SALVADOR, AN ATTACK OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE BLAMED ON THE GUERRILLAS.
WE HAVE LEARNED THAT THERE IS TALK OF A COUP IN GUATEMALA.
OFFICIAL SOURCES REPORTED TODAY THAT THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLA GROUPS HAVE INCREASED THEIR SABOTAGE AGAINST THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL SYSTEM IN THE PAST FEW HOURS, LEAVING 40 PERCENT OF THE NATIONAL TERRITORY WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, WHILE INTERMITTENT BLACKOUTS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY.
CONCERNING A LAST-MINUTE REPORT WHICH INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES ARE ATTRIBUTING TO A CLANDESTINE RADIO VENCEREMOS ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN OPERATION CONCERNING ATTACKS AGAINST SEVERAL MILITARY GARRISONS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, WE INTERVIEWED COLONEL MAURICIO ERNESTO VARGAS, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE 3D INFANTRY BRIGADE STATIONED IN SAN MIGUEL.
REBEL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLA MOVEMENT TODAY INFLICTED ALMOST 100 CASUALTIES ON THE SALVADORAN ARMY DURING ATTACKS ON 15 TOWNS IN 7 DEPARTMENTS.
THE LATEST COUP ATTEMPT AGAINST GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO IS NOT AN ISOLATED EVENT.
THE PERUVIAN POLICE TODAY ARRESTED 10 PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF HAVING DETONATED A CAR BOMB SOME 300 METERS FROM GOVERNMENT HOUSE WHERE PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA AND HIS FAMILY WERE SLEEPING.
A U.S. HELICOPTER USED TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE GUATEMALAN ARMY CRASHED THIS EVENING WHEN TRYING TO LAND AT THE MILITARY AIRPORT IN GUATEMALA CITY.
THE GENERAL COMMAND OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] STATES:
OUR ARMY IS ESSENTIALLY THE PEOPLE'S ARMY, BECAUSE IT WAS BORN OF THE PEOPLE.
INTERIOR MINISTER EDUARDO PEREZ BELTRAN HAS DISCARDED THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW, QUOTE, TERRORIST OR GUERRILLA GROUP, UNQUOTE, OUTBREAK IN THE COUNTRY.
THE HONDURAN ARMED FORCES TODAY CONFIRMED THAT HEAVY CLASHES TOOK PLACE BETWEEN HONDURAN AND SALVADORAN TROOPS OVER THE WEEKEND.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] GENERAL COMMAND TODAY PRESENTED A NEW PROPOSAL FOR A DIALOGUE TO THE GOVERNMENT THAT WILL BE HEADED BY PRESIDENT-ELECT ALFREDO CRISTIANI.
AT 1400 ON 27 MAY, SPECIAL HONDURAN TROOPS ENTERED SAN ANDRES AND TIERRA AGRIA, SAN GERARDO JURISDICTION, SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT, WHEN ARCE BATTALION TROOPS WERE CARRYING OUT AN OPERATION IN THE AREA.
IT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY REPORTED THAT MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING VIOLENT INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED HERE TODAY.
POLITICAL PROPOSAL TO THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL AND SOCIAL FORCES AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:
AN UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF WOUNDED PEOPLE, MOSTLY SUFFERING FROM CUTS, AND BROKEN WINDOWS AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE VELOX BANK ARE THE INITIAL RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION OF A BOMB AT 1215 (1515 GMT) ON THE DOWNTOWN CENTER OF SARMIENTO AND SAN MARTIN STREETS.
IT HAS BEEN LEARNED FROM POLICE SOURCES THAT ANOTHER DEVICE HAS EXPLODED ON THE DOWNTOWN CORNER OF SARMIENTO AND SAN MARTIN STREETS, WHERE MANY BANKING INSTITUTIONS ARE LOCATED.
THE CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICE HAS REPORTED THAT FOUR PEOPLE MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED AND SEVEN WOUNDED IN A FIERCE CLASH BETWEEN POLICEMEN AND CIVILIANS.
GENERAL MIGUEL ALFREDO MAZA MARQUEZ, DIRECTOR OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY OF COLOMBIA (DAS, SECRET POLICE), BLAMED "NARCOMILITARY" ORGANIZATIONS FOR A CAR-BOMB ATTACK FROM WHICH HE ESCAPED UNHARMED TODAY.
MAYOR SANTOS MAURO, A MEMBER OF THE JUSTICIALIST PARTY, HAS SENT AN ALARMING REPORT WHICH STATES THAT THE ADJACENT CITY OF VILLA GOBERNADOR HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY RAIDED BY LOOTERS.
ON THIS 1ST DAY OF THE TRANSPORTATION STOPPAGE CALLED BY THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN], EVERYTHING IS NORMAL IN SAN VICENTE DEPARTMENT.
ACCORDING TO AN ACAN DISPATCH, THE HONDURAN ARMED FORCES HAVE REPORTED THAT THE SALVADORAN ARMY CHASED REBELS ON LAND AND FROM THE AIR INTO HONDURAN TERRITORY.
TERRORISM SEEMS NOT TO HAVE LET UP THROUGHOUT COLOMBIA.
GENERAL MARIO MOLINA, CHIEF OF THE BOLIVIAN POLICE, HAS ADMITTED THAT THE COUNTRY IS SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TERRORISM PRACTICED BY EXTREMIST GROUPS WHICH HAVE NOT YET BEEN OFFICIALLY IDENTIFIED.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] GENERAL COMMAND HAS AGREED TO "CONTINUE" THE DIALOGUE WITH THE NEW SALAVADORAN GOVERNMENT, WHICH WAS SWORN IN YESTERDAY.
COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS TODAY RELEASED THREE BRAZILIAN ENGINEERS WHO WERE KIDNAPPED MORE THAN A MONTH AGO IN BOGOTA.
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE NUMBER 040.
A FEDERAL COURT JUDGE IN PERTH HAS EXTENDED A STAY OF DEPORTATION ORDER AGAINST A CHILEAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST, MR SERGIO BUSCHMANN, AND ORDERED THAT HE BE RELEASED FROM DETENTION AT PERTH AIRPORT.
THE POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT SALVADORAN PRESIDENCY MINISTER JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED THIS MORNING DURING A TERRORIST ATTACK IN WHICH HIS DRIVER AND ONE OF HIS BODYGUARDS WERE KILLED.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENCY MINISTER ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH WAS ASSASSINATED TODAY IN SAN SALVADOR DURING AN ATTACK IN WHICH TWO MEMBERS OF HIS ESCORT WERE ALSO KILLED, THE POLICE HAVE REPORTED.
COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ HAS SAID HE IS "ALARMED" OVER THE ASSASSINATION OF ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH, SALVADORAN MINISTER OF THE PRESIDENCY, BY SUSPECTED URBAN GUERRILLAS EARLY THIS MORNING IN SAN SALVADOR.
THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT TODAY CONDEMNED THE MURDER OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENCY MINISTER ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH IN AN ATTACK PERPETRATED BY PRESUMED URBAN GUERRILLAS.
THE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT TODAY DENOUNCED THE ASSASSINATION OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENCY MINISTER JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH IN AN ATTACK IN WHICH HIS BODYGUARD AND DRIVER WERE ALSO KILLED.
WHEN WE ASKED THE FOREIGN MINISTRY WHY THE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT HAS NOT PROTESTED THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES ATTACKS ON HONDURAN ARMY SOLDIERS AND A HELICOPTER IN LOS LLANITOS (INTIBUCA), THE ANSWER WAS VERY SIMPLE, BUT IT SHOWS THE IMPORTANCE THAT IS GIVEN TO NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND INTEGRITY: THE ARMED FORCES HAVE NOT INFORMED US OF ANYTHING AT ALL -- THEY SAID -- AND WHAT THE MEDIA SAYS IS NOT ACCURATE.
ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS IN LIMA TODAY, DAVID OROSCO TELLO ("COMRADE MERINO"), THIRD IN COMMAND OF THE SHINING PATH GUERRILLA GROUP, DIED DURING A CLASH WITH A PERUVIAN ARMY MILITARY PATROL IN APURIMAC DEPARTMENT, SOUTHEAST OF LIMA.
DEPORTED CHILEAN SECURITY WAS TIGHT AT PERTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS MR. BUSCHMANN, 46, WAS GIVEN AN ENTHUSIASTIC SEND-OFF BY ABOUT 50 LOCAL SUPPORTERS, MOST OF THEM MEMBERS OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CHILEAN COMMUNITY.
MR MINISTER [HONDURAN FOREIGN MINISTER CARLOS LOPEZ CONTRERAS]: VARIOUS HONDURAN PRESS SOURCES HAVE REPORTED ON THE 13 JUNE MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. VICE PRESIDENT AND LEADERS OF THE MERCENARY GROUPS, AMONG THEM ENRIQUE BERMUDEZ, WHO HAVE BEEN USING HONDURAN TERRITORY AS A BASE AND SANCTUARY FOR ITS CRIMINAL ACTIONS AGAINST NICARAGUA.
THE ARGENTINA GOVERNMENT HAS SENT TO BRAZIL A REQUEST OF PREVENTIVE IMPRISONMENT FOR THE EXTRADITION OF 16 PEOPLE (14 ARGENTINES AND 2 FRENCHMEN) CHARGED WITH BELONGING TO THE "ALL FOR THE FATHERLAND" TERRORIST GROUP.
CONCERNING DR JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH'S DEATH, THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT GENERAL COMMAND REPORTS THE FOLLOWING TO ALL SALVADORANS:
TODAY, THE CHILEAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT HAS REPORTED THE EXISTENCE OF A SELECTIVE TERRORIST PLAN TO ATTACK GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, A PLAN THAT COULD BE LINKED TO THE SHINING PATH, A PERUVIAN TERRORIST GROUP.
HURTADO PRESIDENT CRISTIANI THIS MORNING DELIVERED PART OF THE COFFEE TAX, WHICH WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG ALL THE MAYORS' OFFICES IN THE COUNTRY.
TERRORIST SERGIO BUSCHMANN, WHO HAD BEEN HELD IN PREVENTIVE CUSTODY IN ALASKA, WAS SET FREE BY U.S. AUTHORITIES.
NICARAGUA HAS DENIED ANY LINKS WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENCY MINISTER ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH 8 DAYS AGO, AN ALLEGATION MADE BY THE SALVADORAN ARMY.
ACCORDING TO A LAST - MINUTE OFFICIAL REPORT, SIX GUERRILLAS OF THE SO-CALLED CAMILIST UNION OF THE SO-CALLED ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION ELN DIED TODAY DURING FIGHTING WITH (LA POPA) BATTALION TROOPS IN THE SLOPES OF THE PERIJA MOUNTAIN RANGE.
THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE LATEST TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST THE COUNTRY'S OIL PIPELINE HAS SO FAR BEEN ESTIMATED AT ALMOST 75 BILLION PESOS.
THE COLOMBIAN ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) ANNOUNCED TODAY FOR THE FIRST THAT THAT IT IS WILLING TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE ON THE COUNTRY'S OIL POLICY.
MARY STANISLAUS MAKEIL, A U.S. NUN, WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED TODAY WHEN SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A VEHICLE IN WHICH SHE WAS TRAVELING NEAR ZARAGOZA, 20 KM SOUTHWEST OF THE CAPITAL CITY, CHURCH SOURCES HAVE REPORTED.
THERE WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK AT THE SAN SALVADOR CENTRAL MARKET TODAY.
CONCERNING THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON FRIDAY, 23 JUNE AT THE SAN SALVADOR CENTRAL MARKET IN WHICH 2 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 30 WOUNDED, THE FMLN REPORTS TO ALL SALVADORANS THE FOLLOWING:
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA HAS WARNED THAT THE UNITED STATES IS PRESSURING THE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT TO BREAK RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA TO INCREASE ITS "AGGRESSIVE" ACTIONS AGAINST THE SANDINISTS.
THE CAMILIST UNION - ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION ELN HAS CARRIED OUT A NEW ATTACK ON THE PACIFIC OIL PIPELINE IN MULALO, YUMBO MUNICIPALITY.
YOUR CLOSE ATTENTION, FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] COMBATANTS AND THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL: THE MEDIA HAS REPORTED THE MURDER OF ROBERTO ARMANDO RIVERA, DIRECTOR [WORD INDISTINCT] OF THE NATIONAL FIRE DEPARTMENT, BY THE FMLN'S MODESTO RAMIREZ URBAN COMMANDOS [WORDS INDISTINCT].
AN ALLEGED SANDINIST OFFICER WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE CARRIED OUT ESPIONAGE ACTIVITIES AGAINST THE HONDURAN ARMED FORCES AND GOVERNMENT TURNED HIMSELF OVER TO HONDURAN MILITARY AUTHORITIES TODAY.
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO TODAY REVEALED THERE HAVE BEEN TWO ATTEMPTS TO MURDER HIM SINCE HE ASSUMED THE PRESIDENTCY ON 14 JANUARY 1986.
BOLIVIAN LABOR CONFEDERATION (COB) REPRESENTATIVES REPORTED TODAY THAT THREE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH THE KILLING OF TWO U.S. MORMON MISSIONARIES.
A PROPAGANDISTIC SCANDAL WAS PROMOTED IN HONDURAS YESTERDAY, WITH THE REPORT THAT AN ALLEGED NICARAGUAN SPY, WHO HAD SURRENDERED TO HONDURAN AUTHORITIES, "HAD THE MISSION OF ASSASSINATING PRESIDENT AZCONA, ARCHBISHOP SANTOS, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, AND HONDURAN OPPOSITION LEADERS."
REGARDING THE DEATH OF EDGARD CHACON, TODAY, 30 JUNE, THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] STATES THE FOLLOWING:
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI HAS BLAMED FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] GUERRILLAS FOR THE MURDER OF POLITICAL ANALYST EDGAR CHACON AND HAS STRESSED THAT, DESPITE THESE ACTIONS, HE IS UNDETERRED FROM HIS INTENTION TO SIT DOWN AND TALK WITH THE REBELS TO PUT AN END TO THE CONFLICT.
FOUR COLOMBIAN LEFTIST GUERRILLA GROUPS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO PROMOTE A DIRECT PEACE DIALOGUE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO, THIS WILL BRING TO FIVE THE NUMBER OF REBEL GROUPS THAT HAVE REPORTEDLY ACCEPTED THE PEACE PROPOSAL THE COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT MADE IN SEPTEMBER 1988.
IN AN ATTACK THAT OCCURRED NEAR SAN SALVADOR A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS THIS EVENING WOUNDED MAURICIO GUTIERREZ CASTRO, PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE.
POLICE SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT A GUERRILLA WAS KILLED AND TWO CIVILIANS WERE WOUNDED THIS MORNING DURING AN ATTACK BY URBAN GUERRILLAS ON THE SECURITY POST OF A NEIGHBORHOOD INHABITED BY MANY HIGH-RANKING SALVADORAN MILITARY OFFICERS IN THIS CAPITAL.
WE HAVE A LAST-MINUTE REPORT.
AN UNIDENTIFIED ARMED GROUP TRIED TO ATTACK THE RESIDENCE OF ARTHUR MCNAMARA [NAME AS RECEIVED], THE U.S. AMBASSADOR IN BOGOTA, THE PRIVATE RADIO CADENA NACIONAL, RCN, REPORTED TODAY.
EIGHT SOVIET CITIZENS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED TODAY WHEN A BOMB EXPLODED INSIDE A TOURIST BUS THAT WAS ON A DOWNTOWN LIMA AVENUE.
ARMED FORCES COMMANDER GENERAL OSCAR BOTERO RESTREPO REPORTED TODAY THAT GUERRILLAS OF THE PRO - CASTRO ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) SET FIRE TO THREE TANK TRUCKS THAT WERE CARRYING OIL FROM THE CANO LIMON OILFIELD IN ARAUCA DEPARTMENT, WHICH BORDERS VENEZUELA, TO COLOMBIA'S INTERIOR.
RECENTLY NEW PHENOMENA HAVE MADE THEIR WAY ONTO THE COLOMBIAN POLITICAL SCENE.
THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO PERU MADE A REPRESENTATION TO THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY IN CONNECTION WITH THE FACT THAT IN THE PERUVIAN PORT OF CALLAO, A BOMB HAD BEEN PLANTED AND DETONATED LAST WEDNESDAY UNDER A BUS CARRYING CREW MEMBERS OF THE TRAWLER SHIPS "KURASOV" AND "LAZURNY", YURIY GREMITSKIKH, FIRST DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY INFORMATION DIRECTORATE, TOLD REPORTERS AT A BRIEFING HERE TODAY.
THE HONDURAN FOREIGN RELATIONS MINISTRY, BASED ON REPORTS FROM AUTHORITIES IN CHARGE OF SECURITY MATTERS RELATED TO THE INTERROGATION OF CAPTAIN ADAN SOLORZANO MARTINEZ -- AN INTELLIGENCE AGENT OF THE SANDINIST GOVERNMENT -- INFORMS THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OF THE FOLLOWING:
THE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY ELN HAS PROMISED TO RELEASE NORWEGIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST BRUCE OLSON WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
THE MAYORS OF COCORNA, SAN CARLOS, AND SAN FRANCISCO WERE RELEASED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, ANTIOQUIA, THIS MORNING.
AS IZVESTIYA HAS ALREADY REPORTED, ON 5 JULY AT 1000 HOURS LOCAL [PERU] TIME, A BUS WITH SOVIET SEAMEN ON BOARD WAS BLOWN UP BY A BOMB.
THIRTYTHREE SOVIET SEAMEN HAVE BEEN INJURED IN THE PERUVIAN PORT OF CALLAO AS A RESULT OF AN EXPLOSION CAUSED BY A BOMB PLANTED UNDER A BUS STANDING IN THE STREET.
AFTER SPENDING 130 DAYS ABROAD, BERNARDO JARAMILLO, PRESIDENT OF THE LEFT-WING PATRIOTIC UNION (UP), RETURNED TO COLOMBIA TODAY TO URGE THE CASTROITE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) TO JOIN THE PEACE PROCESS BEING PROMOTED BY THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT.
A NEW ATTACK AGAINST THE CANO - LIMON - COVENA OIL PIPELINE, WHICH CAUSED A LARGE OIL SPILL, WAS CARRIED OUT THIS MORNING BY TERRORISTS IN ARAUCA INTENDANCY.
AT 0600 THIS MORNING, FMLN URBAN GUERRILLAS SET OFF A BOMB IN THE BASEMENT OF THE DEMOCRACY TOWER BUILDING IN WESTERN SAN SALVADOR.
[SANCHEZ] GOOD MORNING, HRN [VOZ DE HONDURAS] LISTENERS.
TEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN COLOMBIA DURING A THWARTED ATTACK AGAINST PATIOTIC UNION COUNCILMAN GONZALO ALVAREZ HENAO IN MEDELLIN.
DAVID ANEZ, LEADER OF THE BLOC OF CONGRESSMEN FROM BENI DEPARTMENT, SAID YESTERDAY THAT "THE BENI PEOPLE ARE PERIODICALLY SUFFERING RETALIATORY ATTACKS BY UMOPAR [MOBILE UNITS FOR RURAL AREAS] AND DEA AGENTS, WHO ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN REPRESSIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POLULATION, NOT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKERS."
PERUVIAN COMMUNISTS HAVE FIRMLY CONDEMNED THE TERRORIST ACT CARRIED OUT BY THE PERUVIAN REACTION AGAINST SOVIET FISHERMEN.
ATTENTION, SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
[LOPEZ] WE HAVE REPORTS THAT NORBERTO RODRIGUEZ [PRESIDENT PEREZ' BROTHER-IN-LAW] COULD STILL BE IN THE BORDER REGION, NEAR THE SPOT WHERE HE WAS KIDNAPPED BY THOSE PEOPLE.
INTERIOR MINISTER CARLOS CACERES TODAY STATED THAT THE GANG-STYLE ACTION AKEN YESTERDAY BY SOME PEOPLE TO OCCUPY PRIVATE PROPERTY WILL NOT INTIMIDATE THE GOVERNMENT.
CONCERNING MONDAY'S INCIDENTS NEAR EL SALVADOR UNIVERSITY, THE FMLN STATES:
THE COLOMBIAN POLICE TODAY RESCUED MANUEL VALLEJO URIBE, A BUSINESSMAN, WHO THEY FOUND UNHARMED.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI HAS GIVEN ASSURANCES THAT THERE WILL BE NO MILITARY INTERVENTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR CAMPUS, DESPITE THE VIOLENT INCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS.
TELEVISION STATION AND AT LEAST ONE RADIO STATION, SPOKESMEN OF TELEVISION CHANNEL 7 -- WHICH WAS THE TELEVISION STATION AFFECTED BY THE BLAST -- TOLD DPA.
WITH SIMULTANEOUS BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN THE HONDURAN CAPITAL AND LA CEIBA PORT, LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 355 KM FROM TEGUCIGALPA ON THE ATLANTIC COAST, A NEW GUERRILLA GROUP CALLING ITSELF THE "9 MAY" PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FORCES, FPL, ANNOUNCED ITS EMERGENCE AS ONE OF THE ARMED ORGANIZATIONS STRUGGLING FOR POWER.
TEGUCIGALPA -- THE PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATIONS COORDINATING COMMITTEE (CCOP) AND THE UNITED FEDERATION OF HONDURAN WORKERS (FUTH) CHARGED YESTERDAY THAT THERE IS A TERRORIST PLAN TO ELIMINATE EVERYONE WHO OPPOSES THE U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION OF THE COUNTRY.
THE NATIONAL POLICE REPORTED THAT THE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION-CAMILIST UNION (UC-ELN) TODAY CARRIED OUT ITS SIXTH ATTACK THIS YEAR AGAINST THE PACIFIC OIL PIPELINE, WHICH LINKS THE COLOMBIAN TOWNS OF ORITO AND TUMACO NEAR THE COLOMBIAN-ECUADORAN BORDER.
SALVADORAN PEOPLE: I ADDRESS YOU ON THIS OCCASION TO GIVE YOU MY FIRST REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
THE SALVADORAN NATIONAL POLICE REPORTED THIS MORNING THAT UNIDENTIFIED MEN SET OFF BOMBS AT THE CENTRAL AMERICAN JOSE SIMEON CANAS UNIVERSITY, UCA, LOCATED IN SOUTHWESTERN SAN SALVADOR.
DEAR PEASANT FRIENDS:
LIMA TELEVISION PERUANA NETWORK IN SPANISH 1733 GMT ON 28 JULY, CONTINUING ITS LIVE COVERAGE OF FESTIVITIES ON THE OCCASION OF PERUVIAN NATIONAL DAY, BROADCASTS A SPEECH TO THE NATION BY PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA LIVE FROM THE NATIONAL CONGRESS CHAMBER IN LIMA.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION MARTI FRONT [FMLN] TODAY CLAIMED IT DOWNED TWO HELICOPTERS AND ALSO CHARGED SOME HOUSES WERE DESTROYED BY MILITARY AIRCRAFT IN NORTHERN MORAZAN DEPARTMENT.
THE AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT IN THE PAST FEW HOURS THE CAMILIST UNION OF THE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (UC-ELN) BLEW UP A SECTION OF THE PEREIRA-CARTAGO PIPELINE, CAUSING MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE BUT LEAVING NO CASUALTIES.
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO SAID TODAY THAT DANILO BARILLAS, FORMER AMBASSADOR AND LEADER OF THE RULING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY [PDC], WAS THE "VICTIM OF THE POLITICAL INTOLERANCE OF GROUPS WHO DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN DEMOCRACY."
[PASSAGE INDISTINCT] URBAN GUERRILLAS, CLANDESTINE MILITIAS, AND GUERRILLAS.
THE SO-CALLED LOS EXTRADITABLES TODAY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE REPREHENSIBLE ATTACK ON JUDGE MARIA ELENA DIAZ, THIRD JUDGE OF PUBLIC ORDER, WHO WAS MURDERED ON FRIDAY 28 JULY IN MEDELLIN.
IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE IN COLOMBIA'S RECENT HISTORY, THE PATRIOTIC UNION [UP] TOOK OVER THIS EVENING THE MAIN OFFICES OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY IN BOGOTA AND TOLD THE GOVERNMENT THAT THEY WILL NOT LEAVE UNTIL A GOVERNMENT MEETING IS CONVENED TO ANALYZE THE UPSURGE IN VIOLENCE AGAINST UP MEMBERS.
GUSTAVO GUERRA, COORDINATOR OF THE LEFTIST PATRIOTIC UNITY [UP] IN CORDOBA DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTRY'S NORTHWEST, WAS GUNNED DOWN TODAY.
"I DO NOT WANT TO INTERFERE AT ALL.
POLICE REPORTED TODAY THAT RENE LOPEZ, AN IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL AND LEADER OF THE RULING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY [PDC], WAS SHOT TO DEATH AFTER HE WAS KIDNAPPED BY UNIDENTIFIED MEN.
A LETTER TO THE GREAT LEADER PRESIDENT KIM IL-SONG WAS ADOPTED AT A MEETING FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE KOREAN PEOPLE HELD IN LIMA, PERU, ON JULY 19.
THE HONDURAN ARMY REPORTED TODAY THAT IT DISMANTLED A SALVADORAN GUERRILLA CELL THAT WAS IN CHARGE OF PROVIDING LOGISTICAL SUPPORT AND TRANSPORTATION OF WEAPONS FROM NICARAGUA TO EL SALVADOR THROUGH HONDURAN TERRITORY.
PRESIDENT MANUEL SOLIS PALMA HAS SAID IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA THAT PANAMA IS LIKE A COUNTRY BEING INVADED WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED.
A U.S. CITIZEN DIED AT THE DIAGNOSIS HOSPITAL EARLY THIS MORNING.
INTERIOR MINISTRY SOURCES TODAY REPORTED IN LIMA THAT THREE ALLEGED MEMBERS OF THE TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (MRTA) HAVE DIED IN A CLASH WITH THE NATIONAL POLICE (PN).
TODAY, THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT DECLARED A 30-DAY STATE OF EMERGENCY IN HUAROCHIRI PROVINCE, LIMA DEPARTMENT, DUE TO THE TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN THIS PROVINCE.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEPUTY MAJOR ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON SAID TODAY THAT THE POSITION ADOPTED BY EL SALVADOR THROUGH PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI AT THE SUMMIT IN TELA, HONDURAS, IS POSITIVE BECAUSE EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO ACHIEVE PEACE IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
THREE EXPLOSIONS ROCKED GUATEMALA CITY TODAY, LEAVING AT LEAST ONE DEAD, FIVE WOUNDED, AND VEHICLES AND STORES DAMAGED.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MINERS TODAY REPORTED IN LIMA THAT PERUVIAN SOLDIERS HAVE ARRESTED AT LEAST 22 MINERS, INCLUDING 4 REGIONAL LEADERS, ON THE EVE OF THE MINERS NATIONAL STRIKE, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN ON 14 AUGUST.
SUPERIOR CRIMINAL COURT JUDGE CARLOS VALENCIA GARCIA DIED AFTER HE WAS SHOT TODAY NEAR DOWNTOWN BOGOTA BY TWO MEN TRAVELING ON TWO MOTORCYCLES, POLICE SOURCES REPORTED.
COLOMBIA IS IN UTTER CHAOS TODAY.
MEDELLIN -- ANTIOQUIA POLICE DEPARTMENT CHIEF WALDEMAR FRANKLIN QUINTERO WAS MURDERED THIS MORNING ON THIS CITY'S WEST SIDE.
IT WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED TODAY THAT 800 COLOMBIAN ARMY AND POLICE MEMBERS WERE TAKEN FROM BOGOTA ON BOARD FOUR PLANES TODAY AND DEPLOYED IN THE CITY OF MEDELLIN TO REINFORCE THE MEDELLIN AUTHORITIES.
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN: I AM ADDRESSING YOU TO EXPLAIN THE MEASURES UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE STATE OF SIEGE [MEDIDAS DE ESTADO DE SITIO] WHICH HAVE BEEN ADOPTED AT A TIME WHEN THE NATION HAS JUSTIFIED REASONS TO FEEL ANGRY AND MOVED BY THE SERIOUS ACTIONS OF VIOLENCE THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN RECENT DAYS.
SENATOR LUIS CARLOS GALAN, LIBERAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL, WAS SHOT THIS EVENING WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO GIVE A SPEECH AT MAIN SQUARE OF SOACHA, 15 KM SOUTH OF BOGOTA, IT WAS CONFIRMED BY POLICE AND HEALTH AUTHORITIES.
THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT LUIS CARLOS CARLOS GALAN, SENATOR AND PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL, DIED TONIGHT 2 HOURS AFTER HAVING BEEN SHOT IN AN ATTACK.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES HAVE ANNOUNCED THE SUSPENSION OF THEIR POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS.
GENERAL MIGUEL MAZA, CHIEF OF THE COLOMBIAN SECRET POLICE, WARNED THE COUNTRY TODAY THAT THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS "WILL CONTINUE TO SHOOT," AND ANNOUNCED AN ALL-OUT DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THEM.
ARGENTINA HAS REQUESTED THE ARREST OF TWO WELL KNOWN LEADERS OF THE MONTONEROS TERRORIST GROUP, WHO ARE THOUGHT TO BE LIVING IN MONTEVIDEO.
THE COLOMBIAN-VENEZUELAN BORDER HAS BEEN DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AREA BY THE COLOMBIAN SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS, WHILE THE ENTRY OF VENEZUELANS TO THE NEIGHBORING TERRITORY HAS BEEN RESTRICTED AS A RESULT OF THE SECURITY CRISIS AFFECTING COLOMBIA, A CARACAS NEWSPAPER HAS REPORTED.
AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF LIBERAL LEADER LUIS CARLOS GALAN, THE 4,015 JUDGES OF THE COUNTRY DECIDED TO LIFT THE STRIKE THEY HAD CALLED ON 17 AUGUST, FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF A MAGISTRATE, AND WITHDREW THEIR RESIGNATIONS.
EDUARDO MARTINEZ ROMERO, THE ALLEGED "COMPTROLLER" OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, WAS CAPTURED BY COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES TODAY DURING THE RAID ON A FARM IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY, IT WAS REPORTED IN BOGOTA.
ARGENTINA HAS EXPRESSED ITS SOLIDARITY WITH THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE DURING TODAY'S OAS SESSION.
THE STAFF REPORTERS OF THE NEW MAGAZINE POR QUE RESIGNED THEIR POSTS THIS WEEKEND AFTER RECEIVING DEATH THREATS.
THE ECUADORAN GOVERNMENT HAS REINFORCED ITS BORDER CONTROLS ALONG THE LONG AREA IT SHARES WITH COLOMBIA TO IMPEDE COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS TRYING TO ENTER ECUADOR.
ATTENTION: HERE IS A LAST MINUTE REPORT.
THE COLOMBIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY GAVE THE MEDIA ITS FIRST REPORT ON THE ANTIDRUG OPERATIONS IT HAS CARRIED OUT IN THE COUNTRY AFTER A POLICE COLONEL, A JUDGE, AND CANDIDATE SENATOR LUIS CARLOS GALAN WERE MURDERED LAST WEEK.
STEPPING UP SURVEILLANCE ALONG THE BORDER WITH COLOMBIA AND PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ' WARNING THAT THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING MUST BE STRENGTHENED ARE VENEZUELA'S VISIBLE REACTIONS TO THE WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRY, WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF LIBERAL PARTY LEADER LUIS CARLOS GALAN.
THE GOVERNMENT'S STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DRUG CARTELS CONTINUES.
JUDGES AND JUDICIAL EMPLOYEES TODAY LIFTED THE STRIKE THEY BEGAN ON 17 AUGUST FOLLOWING MAGISTRATE CARLOS VALENCIA GARCIA'S MURDER.
FORMER GOVERNMENT MINISTER CESAR GAVIRIA TRUJILLO WAS UNANIMOUSLY PROCLAIMED TODAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE NEW LIBERALISM [MOVEMENT WITHIN THE LIBERAL PARTY].
A VIOLENT OFFENSIVE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED BY PERSONS WHO ARE BEING SOUGHT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
POLICE IN THIS CAPITAL TODAY REPORTED THAT FOUR BOMBS EXPLODED IN THE CITY OF MEDELLIN EARLY THIS MORNING, KILLING ONE MAN AND CAUSING DAMAGE ESTIMATED IN THE MILLIONS TO TWO POLITICAL PARTY OFFICES AND TO THE COUNTRY HOMES OF TWO POLITICAL LEADERS OF ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT, 500 KM NORTHWEST OF BOGOTA.
WELL-KNOWN BANKER RAMIRO CASTILLO LOVE WAS MURDERED TODAY BY A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS WHO RIDDLED HIM WITH MACHINEGUN FIRE AS HE WAS LEAVING HIS RESIDENCE IN AN ELEGANT SUBURB IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THIS CITY.
AS A RESULT OF COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL LUIS CARLOS GALAN'S MURDER, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' SECURITY IN PUBLIC APPEARANCES HAS BECOME A MAJOR ISSUE.
THE SINISTER EXTRADITABLES GROUP TODAY THREATENED TO KILL 10 JUDGES FOR EVERY COLOMBIAN WHO IS EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES.
LA SERENA INVESTIGATIVE POLICE HAVE DEALT A HARD BLOW TO DRUG TRAFFICKING BY ARRESTING FOUR PERUVIAN CITIZENS WHO ENTERED CHILE ACROSS THE NORTHERN BORDER WITH 2 KG OF COCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE VALUED AT $160,000.
LAST MINUTE REPORT: IN CONFUSING EVENTS, POLICE LIEUTENANT ALFREDO CORREA AND ONE PRIVATE WERE KILLED IN VALLE DEPARTMENT.
MILITARY AND REBEL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT CLASHES BETWEEN SOLDIERS AND GUERRILLAS IN THE PAST FEW HOURS HAVE RESULTED IN 27 CASUALTIES.
SALVADORAN PEOPLE, THIS IS RADIO FARABUNDO MARTI REPORTING A NEW HONDURAN ARMY RAID INTO SALVADORAN TERRITORY.
FEDERAL CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL HAS PROMISED THE PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLIDARITY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DRUGS TRADE AND TERRORISM.
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER, CNI, REPORTED THIS AFTERNOON THAT ROBERTO NORDENFLYGHT FARIAS, WHO KILLED ARMY LIEUTENANT ROBERTO ZEGERS REED IN AN ARMED CLASH IN SANTIAGO LAST SUNDAY, WAS AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PATRIOTIC FRONT [FPMR] AND THE STEPSON OF COMMUNIST LEADER VOLODIA TEITELBOIM.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
THE FULL SCOPE OF THE WAVE OF VIOLENCE AND DEATH THAT HAS SWAMPED COLOMBIA OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS IS NOW BEGINNING TO BE ASSESSED.
THE KIDNAPPING OF FIVE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND THE MURDER OF A PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN IN GUATEMALA CITY THIS WEEK SHOOK THE COUNTRY AND UNLEASHED A WAVE OF CRITICISM AGAINST THE VINICIO CEREZO ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE OF WHAT CRITICS CALLED "ITS INABILITY TO PROVIDE SECURITY TO CITIZENS."
TERRORISM CONTINUES IN MEDELLIN.
INTERIOR MINISTER AGUSTIN MANTILLA TODAY SAID THAT BORDER CHECKPOINTS HAVE BEEN PLACED IN A STATE OF ALERT TO CLOSE THE BORDER TO COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS, WHO MAY SEEK SHELTER IN AN EFFORT TO ESCAPE THE COLOMBIAN POLICE.
COMBINED ARMY AND POLICE FORCES HAVE RAIDED AN OFFICE IN DOWNTOWN BOGOTA THAT APPARENTLY SERVED AS THE "FINANCIAL HEADQUARTERS" OF THE DRUG TRAFFICKING GROUP HEADED BY GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT MEDELLIN CARTEL BOSS.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO SAID IN A MESSAGE "TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY," WHICH WAS ISSUED THIS EVENING BY THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC, THAT "THE SURVIVAL OF COLOMBIA, ONE OF THE MOST STABLE AND OLDEST DEMOCRACIES IN LATIN AMERICA, IS IN DANGER."
IN VIEW OF THE RECENT INCIDENTS AT TOBALABA AIRPORT, THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHILE [PCCH] HAS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING COMMUNIQUE:
SEVEN POWERFUL BOMBS WERE SET OFF IN BOGOTA AND MEDELLIN EARLY THIS MORNING IN WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE CONTINUATION OF THE "WAR" DECLARED BY THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN REPRISAL FOR THE MAJOR BLOWS THEY HAVE BEEN DEALT BY THE AUTHORITIES IN VARIOUS AREAS OF COLOMBIA.
FOREIGN CRIMINALS, INCLUDING A PERSON OF ARAB ORIGIN, PARTICIPATED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR LUIS CARLOS GALAN, THE LIBERAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WHO WAS GUNNED DOWN IN BOGOTA ON 18 AUGUST, ACCORDING TO GENERAL MIGUEL MAZA MARQUEZ, CHIEF OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY (DAS).
FIVE HUNDRED COLOMBIAN JUDGES HAVE ANNOUNCED THEIR "JOINT RESIGNATION" IN PROTEST OF THE ABOLITION OF THE JURY, WHICH MAKES THE JUDGES FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR A SENTENCE.
THE COLOMBIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY IN BOGOTA CONFIRMED TODAY THAT AT LEAST THREE-FOURTHS OF THE 10,797 PEOPLE ARRESTED AFTER SENATOR LUIS CARLOS GALAN'S MURDER ON 18 AUGUST HAVE BEEN RELEASED.
THE RESIGNATIONS OF THREE OF THE JUDGES IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATING THE MURDERS OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANTIOQUIA, ANOTHER JUDGE, AND THE ANTIOQUIA POLICE COMMANDER, WERE ANNOUNCED TODAY.
PRESIDENT JULIO MARIA SAGUINETTI YESTERDAY SENT A TELEGRAM TO COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS EXPRESSING HIS SOLIDARITY OVER THE DEATH OF SENATOR LUIS CARLOS GALAN.
DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL FILMO LOPEZ UZCATEGUI CONFIRMED TODAY THAT VENEZUELAN SOLDIERS ARE BEING DEPLOYED TO THE COLOMBIAN BORDER IN AN EFFORT TO DETECT THE POSSIBLE FLIGHT OF GUERRILLAS OR DRUG TRAFFICKERS FOLLOWING THE OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRY'S SECURITY FORCES, AFTER THE MURDER OF LIBERAL LEADER LUIS CARLOS GALAN.
THE LOCAL PRESS REPORTED TODAY THAT A FORMER LAW STUDENT WHO HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED HAS BEEN FOUND MURDERED IN A DISTRICT IN NORTHERN GUATEMALA CITY.
THE POLICE REPORTED THAT CATTLEMAN LIBERTO GUTIERREZ MARQUEZ, THE ALLEGED FRONT MAN OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL AND BROTHER OF A FORMER COLOMBIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, WAS FOUND MURDERED TODAY APPROXIMATELY 500 KM NORTHWEST OF BOGOTA.
WE NOW HAVE SOME STATEMENTS MADE EXCLUSIVELY TO MADRID RADIO BY A FORMER MEMBER OF THE CHILEAN SECRET POLICE.
COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED TWO MEN SUSPECTED OF BEING INVOLVED IN THE MURDER OF COLOMBIAN LIBERAL PARTY CANDIDATE LUIS CARLOS GALAN: ALVARO DELGADO AND JORGE ANDRES CANAVERAL.
THE 12 EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC) MEMBER STATES THURSDAY CONDEMNED THE RECENT SERIES OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS IN COLOMBIA AND EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR BOGOTA'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT THE COUNTRY'S DRUG LORDS.
THERE HAS BEEN ANOTHER ATTACK IN MEDELLIN, THE THIRD IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS.
INTERIOR MINISTER AGUSTIN MANTILLA TODAY CATEGORICALLY DENIED THAT MEMBERS OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL HAVE ENTERED PERU.
TABATINGA (AMAZONAS STATE) -- IN TABATINGA, 1,700 KM FROM MANAUS, POLICE, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE BRAZILIAN ARMY AND THE SOUTHERN UNIFIED COMMAND (EAST OF COLOMBIA, YESTERDAY BEGAN AN OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS OF THE MEDELLIN AND CALI CARTELS.
TWO UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACKS WERE PERPETRATED IN MEDELLIN LAST EVENING SHORTLY BEFORE THE CURFEW WAS ENFORCED.
RICALDONE INSTITUTE DIRECTOR FATHER GIUSSEPPE CORO PROTESTED TODAY THE MURDER OF A YOUNG MECHANICS STUDENT AND LATER ATTEMPTS TO INVOLVE THE INSTITUTE IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES IN THIS COUNTRY, WHICH IS AT WAR.
TWO BODIES, NEW VICTIMS OF THE GUATEMALAN VIOLENCE, WERE FOUND TODAY SHOT TO DEATH IN THE UNITED NATIONS PARK, ABOUT 22 KM SOUTH OF GUATEMALA CITY.
THE SO-CALLED EXTRADITABLES HAVE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTACK ON THE NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR FACILITIES IN BOGOTA THIS MORNING.
BOGOTA INRAVISION TELEVISION CADENA 2 BROADCASTS A SERIES OF REPORTS, TOTALING ABOUT 10 MINUTES, ON THE 2 SEPTEMBER BOMB ATTACK CARRIED OUT AGAINST THE FACILITIES OF THE BOGOTA NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR.
THE NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING "CAPOS," THOSE "EXTRADITABLE" TO THE UNITED STATES, "ARE IN COLOMBIA; THEY HAVE NOT SOUGHT REFUGE ABROAD," NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF GENERAL MIGUEL GOMEZ PADILLA TOLD THE PRESS TODAY.
THE PRESIDENTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA JOINTLY DENOUNCED TERRORISTS AND DRUG-PUSHERS AS "TWO MAJOR POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD" MONDAY.
MEDELLIN -- AN BOMBING ATTACK ATTACK ON 3 AUGUST OCCURRED AT A BRANCH OF BANCO POPULAR, AT THE INTERSECTION OF 49TH AVENUE AND 50TH STREET, ITAGUI MUNICIPALITY, TO THE SOUTH OF ABURRA VALLEY.
TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 12 WERE WOUNDED TODAY, INCLUDING 3 MEMBERS OF THE ANTIOQUIA POLICE, IN AN ATTACK AT THE JOSE MARIA CORDOBA AIRPORT IN RIONEGRO.
A C-123 HERCULES PLANE HAS BEEN DYNAMITED IN MONTERIA.
OFFICIALS FROM COLOMBIA'S AVIANCA AIRLINE DENIED REPORTS TODAY THAT A BOMB HAD BEEN FOUND AND DEFUSED INSIDE ONE OF ITS AIRPLANES IN THE CITY OF MEDELLIN.
A NEW TERRORIST ACTION SHOOK MEDELLIN IN NORTHWESTERN COLOMBIA THIS EVENING WHEN TWO MEN RIDING ON A MOTORCYCLE THREW AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE AT A POLICE POST LOCATED IN THE EXCLUSIVE SUBURB OF EL POBLADO.
THE DEFENSE MINISTRY HAS REPORTED THAT A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS TODAY KILLED ANGELA DE GUERRERO, WIFE OF COLONEL CARLOS GUERRERO OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND LOGISTICS DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES GENERAL COMMAND, IN NORTHERN BOGOTA.
A SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT COMMISSION WILL MEET WITH LEFTIST REBELS BEFORE 15 SEPTEMBER IN A PRELIMINARY DIALOGUE TO END ALMOST 10 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR, IT WAS REPORTED TODAY BY A HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL.
COLONEL ORLANDO MONTANO, DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE AND PUBLIC SECURITY, GAVE ASSURANCES TODAY THAT THE ARMED FORCES WILL ESTABLISH A TRUCE ON 14 AND 15 SEPTEMBER, AS REQUESTED BY THE PERMANENT DIALOGUE COMMITTEE, AND THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] HAS PLEDGED TO RESPECT IT.
PUBLIC ORDER JUDGES WILL BEGIN WORKING OUT OF THE DAS [ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY] HEADQUARTERS.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AFFIRMED TODAY THAT MANY OF THE SALVADORAN REFUGEES IN HONDURAS ARE LINKED TO THE GUERRILLAS BUT THAT HE WILL MAKE A "GOOD WILL" GESTURE TO HAVE APPROXIMATELY 3,800 OF THEM REPATRIATED.
THE EXTENSIVE BORDER SHARED BY VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA IS TODAY, MORE THAN EVER, THE CAUSE OF CONCERN FOR THE CARACAS GOVERNMENT.
A RADIO STATION NEWSMAN HAS REPORTED THAT AN ALLEGED SPOKESMAN FOR "THE EXTRADITABLES," A GROUP THAT CLAIMS TO BE LINKED TO THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BURNING OF A RESTAURANT TODAY AND A 5 SEPTEMBER SHARPSHOOTER ATTACK AT THE LOCAL AIRPORT.
THE POLICE REPORTED TODAY THAT U.S. JOURNALIST BERNARDETTE PARDO, WHO WAS SENT TO COLOMBIA BY THE SPANISH-SPEAKING UNIVISION TELEVISION NETWORK TO COVER THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT'S "WAR" AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKERS, WAS INJURED LAST NIGHT DURING AN ATTACK IN MEDELLILN.
SPOKESMEN OF THE BOGOTA MAYOR'S OFFICE AND THE POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT CITY AUTHORITIES TODAY REINFORCED SECURITY MEASURES TO PREVENT TERRORIST ACTIONS.
THREE STRONG EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED LAST NIGHT IN MEDELLIN, A DRUG TRAFFICKING CENTER IN COLOMBIA.
COLOMBIA AND THE WORLD RECEIVED WITH OPTIMISM THE BUSH ANTIDRUG PLAN.
THIS STATION HAS JUST CONFIRMED THAT EDUARDO MARTINEZ ROMERO, REPORTED TO BE THE FINANCIAL WIZARD OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, WAS EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES TODAY.
LUZ AMPARO GOMEZ SERNA, A 29-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FROM CALI, WAS MURDERED AT 1620 THIS AFTERNOON.
LAST NIGHT A BOMB DESTROYED A BRANCH OF THE STATE-OWNED CENTRAL MORTGAGE BANK IN THIS CITY.
THIRTY MEN WITH HOODS OVER THEIR FACES ARE AT SANTANDER SQUARE AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PROTESTING THE MEASURES ADOPTED BY U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH.
A 20-KG BOMB WENT OFF AT A BRANCH OF THE CENTRAL MORTAGE BANK LOCATED IN THE BELEN NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE CITY OF MEDELLIN LAST NIGHT, ONLY 2 HOURS BEFORE THE CURFEW WENT INTO EFFECT.
THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND CLASSES AT THE STATE-OWNED NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIA, THE LARGEST UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY, AFTER TWO DEVICES EXPLODED ON CAMPUS.
THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT HAS REVOKED A CONTROVERSIAL DECREE, ISSUED 24 HOURS BEFORE, THAT EMPOWERED THE MILITARY TO TAKE OVER THE MAYORS' OFFICES IN AREAS SCOURGED BY THE VIOLENCE UNLEASHED BY DRUG TRAFFICKERS.
THE POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO SCORE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKERS AND ALLEGED ASSASSINS.
WITH THE DEATH OF GUERRILLA SAID HURTADO MOTTA AND LUZ MERY GARCIA, A RESIDENT OF SANTO DOMINGO WHO OWNED A GROCERY STORE, THE NUMBER OF M-19 [19 APRIL MOVEMENT] MEMBERS MURDERED HAS RISEN TO 10 SINCE THE PEACE PROCESS BEGAN IN MARCH.
ON HIS WAY HOME, PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA TODAY STOPPED OVER IN BOGOTA, WHERE HE MET WITH PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO AND VISITED EL ESPECTADOR NEWSPAPER OFFICES, WHICH WERE DYNAMITED BY DRUG TRAFFICKERS LAST WEEKEND.
PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA SAID IN BOGOTA TODAY THAT IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THAT IN PANAMA THERE ARE "PUPPET GOVERNMENTS WHICH ARE CRUDELY DESIGNATED AND THEN REMOVED."
SALVADORAN VICE PRESIDENT FRANCISCO MERINO ESCAPED UNHARMED FROM AN ATTACK TONIGHT WHEN THE MOTORCADE HE WAS TRAVELLING IN WAS AMBUSHED BY A GUERRILLA COLUMN NEAR METAPAN, 105 KM TO THE WEST OF SAN SALVADOR, ACCORDING TO AFP.
A POWERFUL BOMB EXPLODED TONIGHT, FRIDAY, IN THE COLOMBIAN CITY OF MEDELLIN, OPPOSITE A TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, CAUSING SEVERE PROPERTY DAMAGE, AFP WAS ABLE TO VERIFY.
IT WAS LEARNED HERE TODAY THAT A JUDICIAL ORDER HAS FREED LUIS FERNANDO GALEANO BERRIO (ALIAS EL NEGRO), WHO IS ACCUSED OF BEING ONE OF THE FINANCIAL OFFICIALS OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL AND WHO IS SUBJECT TO EXTRADITION TO THE UNITED STATES.
COLOMBIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY SPOKESMEN REPORTED TODAY THAT ARMY TROOPS DEALT A HARSH BLOW TO THE MEDELLIN DRUG CARTEL OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS.
AN EMERGENCY MEETING OF ATTORNEY GENERALS AND OTHER TOP OFFICIALS FROM NINE LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS TOOK PLACE IN MEXICO CITY TO ESTABLISH A "COMMON FRONT" AND PROTECT ONE ANOTHER AGAINST TAKEOVER EFFORTS BY DISPLACED DRUG BARONS AND THEIR ARMED MAFIAS.
THE PROSECUTOR IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATING THE ASSASSINATION OF LIBERAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LUIS CARLOS GALAN TODAY ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR JAIME VALENCIA MARTINEZ, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MASTERMINDING THE CRIME.
TWO POLICEMEN WERE INJURED AND 13 BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS WERE DESTROYED AS THE RESULT OF TWO TERRORIST ATTACKS LAST NIGHT IN THE GUATEMALAN CAPITAL.
OFFICIAL GUATEMALAN SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT THE BODIES OF FOUR OF THE NINE GUATEMALAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED OVER THE PAST 2 WEEKS BY DEATH SQUADS WERE FOUND TODAY NEAR THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF GUATEMALA CITY.
UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS TODAY BROKE INTO A FARM OWNED BY CARLOS OSSA, MANAGER OF THE COLOMBIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRARIAN REFORM (INCORA), KILLED A WATCHMAN, AND SET FIRE TO THE FARM.
CALI -- THE AUTHORITIES AS WELL AS SECRET POLICE ORGANIZATIONS ARE ASTOUNDED AT THE KILLING OF A NATIONAL POLICEMAN AND HIS 2-YEAR-OLD SON BY PAID ASSASSINS.
MEDELLIN -- FOUR MEN WHO WERE TRAVELLING IN A PRIVATELY OWNED BLUE RENAULT WITH LICENSE PLATES LE-7570, HAVE SET FIRE TO TWO GOVERNMENT VEHICLES IN THE URBAN AREA OF RIO NEGRO MUNICIPALITY, IN THE EASTERN REGION OF ANTIOQUIA.
FORMER MEDELLIN MAYOR PABLO PELAEZ GONZALEZ, 45, WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS, WHILE TRAVELING BETWEEN HIS HOME AND OFFICE TODAY.
PABLO PELAEZ GONZALES, 45, A FORMER MAYOR OF MEDELLIN, WAS MURDERED TODAY BY GUNMEN WHO FIRED SEVEN SHOTS AT HIM, SAID MEDICAL SOURCES AT GENERAL HOSPITAL, WHERE THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN AFTER THE ATTACK.
AT THE END OF A SECURITY MEETING, MEDELLIN MAYOR JUAN GOMEZ MARTINEZ ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE CURFEW IN MEDELLIN HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD.
POLICE SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT A BOMB EXPLODED TODAY NEAR THE STATE-OWNED CHILEAN TELEVISION FACILITIES.
"NONE OF US WANTED THE WAR.
CALI -- THE JUDGES AND COURT EMPLOYEES OF THE CALI JUDICIAL DISTRICT HAVE BEEN ON STRIKE SINCE YESTERDAY TO PROTEST THE KIDNAPPING OF ORLANDO CUELLER OSORIO, A COURT PROCESS SERVER OF THE 12TH MUNICIPAL PENAL COURT.
THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF GUATEMALA [CDH] CHARGED HERE TODAY THE "SHARED RESPONSIBILITY" OF PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO AND THE SECRET SERVICE OF THE ARMY (G-2) IN THE DEATH OF FOUR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, WHOSE BRUTALLY MUTILATED BODIES WERE FOUND ON 10 SEPTEMBER IN A GUATEMALA CITY SUBURB.
SINCE A MINE IS A WEAPON OF A MILITARY NATURE AND SINCE ITS USE HAS INCREASED IN THE PAST FEW YEARS THROUGHOUT VARIOUS UNPOPULATED AREAS OF THE COUNTRY WHERE MINE FIELDS HAVE BEEN PLANTED, THE SWEEPING OF THIS TYPE OF WEAPON WILL NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE DONE GRADUALLY FOR TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL REASONS.
FOREIGN MINISTER GUILLERMO LARCO COX TODAY LABELED THE U.S. AID TO FIGHT DRUG TRAFFICKING IN SOUTH AMERICA AS MEAGER.
REBEL COMMANDER SHAFIK HANDAL IN THE MEXICAN CAPITAL TODAY SAID THAT THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS HAVE PROPOSED NINE POINTS "THAT REFLECT THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE ENTIRE NATION" TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ALFREDO CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT.
WITH MODERATE OPTIMISM, THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND THE GUERRILLAS OPENED A DIALOGUE IN MEXICO CITY TODAY TO ESTABLISH PEACE IN EL SALVADOR, WITH A SPECTACULAR PRIOR ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE INSURGENTS THAT THEY ARE PREPARED TO DECLARE A DEFINITIVE CEASE-FIRE AND BECOME A POLITICAL PARTY.
A BOMB EXPLODED TODAY BEFORE DAWN IN GUAYAQUIL AT THE RESIDENCE OF ECUADORAN FELIPE COSTA, CANADA'S HONORARY CONSUL IN ECUADOR.
AFTER WE ANNOUNCED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A UNILATERAL TRUCE, 3D BRIGADE COMMANDER COLONEL MAURICIO VARGAS ORDERED THE INCURSION OF THE ARCE BATTALION INTO OUR TERRITORY IN NORTHERN MORAZAN DEPARTMENT.
NICARAGUA WILL HOLD GENERAL ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR IN FEBRUARY.
OFFICIAL SOURCES ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE DISCOVERED THAT MEMBERS OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL PROVIDE ALTERED GUATEMALAN PASSPORTS TO COURIERS WHO BRING TO GUATEMALA COCAINE THAT IS LATER TAKEN TO THE UNITED STATES.
THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE 19 APRIL MOVEMENT (M-19) HAVE POSTPONED SIGNING A PEACE AGREEMENT BUT HAVE NOT BROKEN OFF THE NEGOTIATIONS, AN M-19 SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCED TODAY.
COLOMBIAN SECRET POLICE SOURCES REPORTED THAT THE ALLEDGED DRUG TRAFFICKERS BERNARDO PELAEZ ROLDAN AND GUILLERMO BUENO DELGADO WERE ARRESTED TODAY.
TODAY, 14 SEPTEMBER, THE CHIEFS OF THE SALVADORAN ARMY ARCE BATTALION STATE THAT THE FMLN HAS BROKEN THE UNILATERAL TRUCE.
THE REBELS' DECISION TO EXPRESS THEIR WILLINGNESS TO ABANDON THE ARMED STRUGGLE AND MAKE OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FLMN] OF EL SALVADOR A LEGAL PARTY, FAR FROM WEAKENING THE GUERRILLA, STRENGTHENS ITS REVOLUTIONARY POSITION.
THE PRO-CASTROITE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) OF COLOMBIA DESTROYED A SECTION OF THE TECA - VASCONIA OIL PIPELINE IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTRY LAST NIGHT, THE COLOMBIAN OIL ENTERPRISE (ECOPETROL) OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TODAY.
THE THIRD PUBLIC JUDGE ISSUED ARREST WARRANTS FOR NORBERTO HERNANDEZ ROMERO AND RAFAEL RIVERA ALARCON AND CHARGED THEM WITH PARTICIPATING IN THE MURDER OF LIBERAL PARTY LEADER LUIS CARLOS GALAN SARMIENTO.
THE FRG EMBASSY IN BOGOTA TODAY REJECTED A REPORT THAT SOME OF ITS OFFICIALS ARE LINKED TO THE POWERFUL DRUG TRAFFICKING MAFIAS THAT OPERATE IN COLOMBIA.
COLOMBIAN AIR FORCE [FAC] COMMANDOS AND PILOTS TODAY RECEIVED ORDERS TO STAND READY TO TAKE OFF, INTERCEPT, CAPTURE, OR SHOOT DOWN UNIDENTIFIED OR HOSTILE AIRCRAFT FLYING OVER THE NATION'S TERRITORY.
IN CALI, NINE PERSONS WERE INJURED AND THERE IS CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE FOLLOWING LAST NIGHT'S TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST SOME BANK BRANCHES.
TWO BOMBS EXPLODED A FEW MINUTES AGO IN THE CHAPINERO NEIGHBORHOOD IN BOGOTA.
THE COLOMBIAN POLICE REPORTED THAT A HOMEMADE ROCKET WAS LAUNCHED AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN BOGOTA THIS EVENING.
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH HAS DECLARED HIS COUNTRY'S WAR AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN A DRAMATIC MANNER, COMMITTING A MASSIVE FUND OF $7.86 BILLION FOR THE PROGRAMME, PROVIDING INCREASED POWERS TO LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND EVEN OFFERING SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO OTHER COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY IN LATIN AMERICA, FIGHTING THIS MENACE.
YESTERDAY MORNING, 27 PEOPLE WERE DETAINED AND MORE THAN 30 STOLEN CARS WERE SEIZED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF VITORIA (ESPIRITO SANTO STATE) DURING A HUGE OPERATION CONDUCTED BY THE FEDERAL POLICE DEPARTMENT (DPF).
THIS IS A LAST-MINUTE REPORT: TWO MORE EXPLOSIONS HAVE TAKEN PLACE JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO IN BOGOTA.
VICE PRESIDENT EDUARDO DUHALDE SAID TODAY THAT THE PROBLEM CREATED BY DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN COLOMBIA "CANNOT" OCCUR IN ARGENTINA BECAUSE IN COLOMBIA THE DRUG TRAFFICKERS PRACTICALLY CREATED A "PARALLEL GOVERNMENT WITH THE IDEA OF TAKING POWER."
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN VIRTUALLY 10 YEARS OF ARMED CONFLICT, WHICH HAS CLAIMED ALMOST 70,000 LIVES, THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND GUERRILLAS SIGNED AN AGREEMENT RECENTLY IN MEXICO CITY.
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN MASS MEDIA HAS REGARDED THE INTENTION OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EXISTING CONSTITUTION AS A DEVIATION FROM RECENT AGREEMENTS WITH THE REBELS.
A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE SPOKESMAN HAS INDICATED THAT WASHINGTON PROPOSES TO CONTINUE HELPING THE SALVADORAN REGIME UNTIL THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] COMBATANTS SURRENDER THEIR ARMS.
A HELICOPTER WAS DAMAGED, A REBEL WAS KILLED, AND TWO OTHERS WERE WOUNDED IN HEAVY CLASHES IN THE NORTHERN SECTOR OF THE COUNTRY, THE SALVADORAN ARMY REPORTED TODAY.
AN ESCALATION IN TERRORIST ACTS AFFECTED THE CAPITAL AND RESULTED IN ONE PERSON WOUNDED AND UNDETERMINED LARGE PROPERTY LOSSES.
ACCORDING TO WESTERN DIPLOMATS, COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS HAVE MOVED TO GUATEMALA IN SEARCH OF NEW SUPPLY ROUTES, BRINGING INSTABILITY TO A COUNTRY THAT IS EXPERIENCING A WAVE OF VIOLENCE FROM VARIOUS SECTORS.
THE 13TH INFANTRY BRIGADE HAS REPORTED THAT FOLLOWING A SERIES OF ACTIONS BY SPECIAL URBAN TROOPS, FOUR PERSONS WHO ARE APPARENTLY INVOLVED IN THE MURDER OF DR LUIS CARLOS GALAN SARMIENTO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.
A FEW MINUTES AGO, DEFENSE AND PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER GENERAL RAFAEL HUMBERTO LARIOS ANNOUNCED THAT THE ARMED FORCES ARE WILLING TO STUDY THE POSSIBILITY OF A TROOP REDUCTION IF AN AGREEMENT IS REACHED WITH THE LEFTIST REBELS OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT.
THE MAIN CHIEFS OF THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIRECTORATE (DIC) OF THE GUATEMALAN POLICE WERE SUDDENLY DISMISSED FROM THEIR POSTS, DIC DIRECTOR COLONEL GEOVANNI CARDENAS REPORTED TODAY.
ARMY SPOKESMAN COLONEL LUIS ARTURO ISAACS HAS SAID THAT POSSESSION OF WAR MATERIEL DESIGNATED FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE MILITARY MAKES LIONEL SISNIEGA OTERO A TERRORIST.
ANOTHER DYNAMITE ATTACK TONIGHT AGAINST A BRANCH OFFICE OF THE DAILY EL ESPECTADOR, WEST OF BOGOTA, HAS RESULTED IN INJURIES TO A POLICEMAN AND HEAVY PROPERTY DAMAGE, IT WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED.
THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION IN SOUTHERN BOGOTA TONIGHT AT ONE OF THE BOGOTA TELEPHONE COMPANY INSTALLATIONS.
A DISTRIBUTION AGENCY OF THE BOGOTA NEWSPAPER EL ESPECTADOR AND THE OFFICE OF THE MORNING NEWSPAPER EL SIGLO WERE THE TARGETS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS TONIGHT WHICH LEFT ONE POLICEMAN SLIGHTLY INJURED AND CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE, THE AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED.
SECURITY AT THE COLOMBIAN EMBASSY IN KINGSTON HAS BEEN TIGHTENED FOLLOWING A BOMB THREAT ON MONDAY [18 SEPTEMBER], THE GLEANER NEWSPAPER REPORTED.
IN NORTHERN BOGOTA, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE MEMBERS TODAY ARRESTED TWO ISRAELIS WHO SAID THEY ARE COLONEL HEGEJAM SETER AND MAJOR ESKENASI NISIM.
A HIGH-RANKING MILITARY SOURCE CLOSE TO VINICIO CEREZO'S GOVERNMENT SUGGESTED TODAY THAT "THE OFFICERS OF THE MOUNTAIN" [ODEM], A SECRET MILITARY ORGANIZATION THAT CONDUCTED TWO FAILED COUPS IN THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, MAY BE INVOLVED IN THE WAVE OF TERRORIST EXPLOSIONS, ABDUCTIONS, AND POLITICAL MURDERS THAT HAS BEEN SCOURGING GUATEMALA OVER THE LAST 2 MONTHS.
WHILE COLOMBIANS WATCHED A SOCCER GAME BETWEEN ECUADOR AND PARAGUAY THIS AFTERNOON, TERRORISTS AVAILED THEMSELVES OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE FOUR MORE BOMBS IN VARIOUS PLACES THROUGHOUT BOGOTA.
THE ECUADORAN POLICE DEALT A HARSH BLOW TO DRUG TRAFFICKING WHEN IT CAPTURED JUAN HERNANDO GONZALEZ AND GERMAN BELANDRIA, TWO DRUG TRAFFICKERS WHO WORKED FOR THE COLOMBIAN CARTELS.
THE U.S. SENATORS HAVE MADE A MISTAKE.
SALVADORAN VICE PRESIDENT FRANCISCO MERINO STATED TODAY THAT THE MILITARY ASPECTS OF THE AGREEMENTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT MAY REDUCTIONS.
GUATEMALAN FOREIGN MINISTER MARIO PALENCIA WAS ASKED TODAY ABOUT THE CASE OF THE GUATEMALANS WHO TRAVELLED TO SPAIN.
JUST 10 DAYS AFTER A DIALOGUE WAS HELD IN MEXICO, THE SITUATION HAS BECOME MORE TENSE IN VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENTS AND ARMED FORCE'S ATTITUDE.
THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS ACCUSED THE GOVERNMENT OF NOT WANTING TO NEGOTIATE THE END OF THE WAR AND INCREASING THE "REPRESSION" AGAINST WORKERS.
THE M-19 GUERRILLA GROUP [19 APRIL MOVEMENT], WHICH IS ABOUT TO SIGN A PEACE AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT, TODAY PROPOSED OPENING A DIALOGUE WITH THE NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS.
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THE AIRSTRIP IN CHILANGA, 5 KM NORTH OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO DE LA GOTERA, WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
IN A NEW ACTION ATTRIBUTED TO THE DRUG TRAFFICKING RINGS OPERATING IN BOGOTA, A MEDIUM-SIZED BOMB PARTIALLY DESTROYED A SECONDARY SCHOOL LOCATED IN A POPULOUS SOUTHERN BOGOTA NEIGHBORHOOD TONIGHT.
[BARCO] SOME OF THE ARRESTED PERSONS ARE EXTRADITABLE.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT COMMANDER CARLOS NUNEZ HAS STATED THAT THE 39 FORMER GN [NATIONAL GUARD] MEMBERS NOW IN JAIL WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY FORCES IN HONDURAS ARE DEMOBILIZED.
IN A FIRST RULING, CRIMINAL JUDGE 62 OF RIONEGRO MUNICIPALITY, NORTHWESTERN ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT, HAS ACQUITTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA AND GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA OF CHARGES OF MASTERMINDING THE MURDER OF ATTORNEY GENERAL CARLOS MAURO HOYOS AND THE KIDNAPPING OF BOGOTA CITY MAYOR ANDRES PASTRANA.
IT WAS REPORTED IN THIS CAPITAL TODAY THAT HEAVILY ARMED MEN KIDNAPPED THREE EUROPEANS IN TECUN UMAN LAST NIGHT.
DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS COLOMBIAN SECRET POLICE HAVE ARRESTED 30 CRIMINALS WHO BELONG TO A BAND OF HIRED ASSASSINS OPERATING IN THE CONFLICTIVE MIDDLE MAGDALENA AREA OF THE COUNTRY'S CENTRAL REGION.
BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT JAIME PAZ ZAMORA HAS STATED THAT BOLIVIA NEEDS ADEQUATE ASSISTANCE TO SOLVE ITS PROBLEMS.
IT WAS REPORTED TODAY IN BOGOTA THAT THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT HAS REJECTED AN APPEAL PRESENTED BY BEATRIZ RODRIGUEZ ZUNIGA'S LAWYER, WHO WANTED HER ARREST FOR EXTRADITION PURPOSES CANCELLED.
WE REPORT TO YOU THE FOLLOWING CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE SEARCH FOR A JUST AND LASTING PEACE IN EL SALVADOR.
POLICE SOURCES REPORTED TODAY THAT A SPANIARD, A FRENCHMAN, AND AN ITALIAN, KIDNAPPED IN TECUN UMAN ON 27 SEPTEMBER, HAVE BEEN RELEASED WITHIN THE PAST FEW HOURS.
THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLES MEANS NATIONS HAVE THE ABILITY TO SETTLE THEIR DOMESTIC PROBLEMS BY THEMSELVES.
THE COLOMBIAN NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY [ELN] GUERRILLA MOVEMENT, WHICH KIDNAPPED SPANISH BUSINESSMAN PABLO MARTIN BERROCAL ALMOST 2 MONTHS AGO IN QUITO, IS DEMANDING 1 BILLION PESETAS RANSOM FOR HIS RELEASE.
ISRAELI ANTITERROR SECURITY INSTRUCTORS IN PERU HAVE BEEN DECLARED PERSONA NON GRATA AND ARE NOT BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER PERU.
THE AUTHORITIES OF THE EASTERN DEPARTMENT OF ARAUCA, IN THE OIL PRODUCING SECTOR OF THE COUNTRY, HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT MSGR JESUS EMILIO JARAMILLO WAS MURDERED AND THAT HIS BODY WAS FOUND TODAY.
GUATEMALAN SECURITY FORCES TODAY DECLARED A "GENERAL ALERT" AFTER A RADIO STATION IN THE CAPITAL RECEIVED A PHONE CALL IN WHICH AN UNIDENTIFIED PERSON THREATENED A GENERALIZED ATTACK ON RADIO STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA HAS ASKED SOME EUROPEAN NATIONS TO ATTEND THE PRESIDENTIAL MEETING OF THE COCA PRODUCING COUNTRIES AND U.S. AUTHORITIES AT WHICH THE DRUG TRAFFICKING ISSUE WILL BE DISCUSSED.
SOME 80 MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE FEDERATION OF COMMITTEES OF MOTHERS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS (FECMAFAN) TODAY "FORCIBLY" OCCUPIED THE COSTA RICAN EMBASSY IN SAN SALVADOR TO DENOUNCE "THE REPRESSION OF THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT" OF EL SALVADOR.
APPROXIMATELY 50 SALVADORAN LEFTIST ACTIVISTS DEMANDED THE MEDIATION OF COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS AS A CONDITION TO LEAVE THE COSTA RICAN EMBASSY WHICH THEY FORCEFULLY OCCUPIED ON THE MORNING OF 3 OCTOBER.
AYACUCHO MILITARY SOURCES TODAY REPORTED THAT 35 PEOPLE DIED IN ATTACKS BY ABOUT 150 SHINING PATH MEMBERS AGAINST 4 TOWNS ON THE BORDER OF AYACUCHO AND HUANCAVELICA DEPARTMENTS.
THE MEDIATION OF ARCHBISHOP ARTURO RIVERA Y DAMAS COULD END THE OCCUPATION BY 20 MEMBERS OF AN OPPOSITION HUMANITARIAN GROUP OF THE COSTA RICAN EMBASSY IN SAN SALVADOR IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
TWO TERRORIST BOMBINGS IN NORTHERN BOGOTA HAVE WOUNDED SIX PERSONS AND CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.
FOUR MEN, WHO HAD 250 KG OF DYNAMITE WITH THEM, WERE ARRESTED TODAY BY THE BOGOTA POLICE WHO SAID THEY HAD DISMANTLED A BAND OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE SOWING TERROR IN THIS CITY.
ACCORDING TO MILITARY SOURCES TODAY, THREE MEMBERS OF THE PEASANT DEFENSE PATROLS WERE MURDERED BY A COLUMN OF SHINING PATH MEMBERS, AND ANOTHER TWO WERE WOUNDED DURING AN ATTACK ON HUANTA TOWN IN AYACUCHO PROVINCE.
GUILLERMO LARCO COX, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS AND FOREIGN MINISTER, TODAY REITERATED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THE KIDNAPPERS OF TELEVISION MANAGER HECTOR DELGADO PARKER BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT'S LEGITIMACY ITSELF WOULD BE AT STAKE.
TODAY PRESIDENT CARLOS MENEM SAID THAT HE IS WILLING TO ACCEPT "ALL THE POLITICAL COSTS THAT MAY EMERGE" FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL PARDON TO MILITARY MEN AND CIVILIANS WHO VIOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS.
THE MEDELLIN CARTEL BOSSES HAVE PROPOSED TO THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT A "DEMOBILIZATION PLAN" THAT WOULD ENTAIL THE END OF DRUG TRAFFICKING ACTIVITIES, THE SURRENDER OF WEAPONS, AND THE REPATRIATION OF CAPITAL IN EXCHANGE FOR A PARDON.
THE 19 APRIL MOVEMENT (M-19), WHICH RECENTLY LAYED DOWN ITS WEAPONS TO REJOIN CIVILIAN LIFE AFTER ACCEPTING THE PEACE PROCESS PROPOSED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO, BECAME A POLITICAL PARTY TODAY IN THE HOPE OF RULING THE COUNTRY.
THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT HAS ESTABLISHED UNPRECEDENTED SECURITY MEASURES TO GUARANTEE THE SAFETY OF THE GROUP OF EIGHT PRESIDENTS AND FOREIGN MINISTERS WHO WILL BEGIN MEETING ON 9 OCTOBER IN TRUJILLO, THE COUNTRY'S THIRD-LARGEST CITY, 570 KM NORTH OF LIMA.
ACCORDING TO A CONFIDENTIAL PERUVIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENT PUBLISHED TODAY BY THE LIMA DAILY LA REPUBLICA, THE PERUVIAN SHINING PATH GUERRILLA ORGANIZATION IS PLANNING TO PROVOKE A FOOD SHORTAGE IN LIMA.
TODAY IN THE CITY OF TRUJILLO THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, MEXICO, AND PERU BEGAN DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF OUSTING PANAMA FROM THE GROUP OF EIGHT AND EVENTUALLY ACCEPTING ECUADOR IN ITS PLACE.
MARTA LUZ LOPEZ, MANAGER OF EL ESPECTADOR IN MEDELLIN, WAS KILLED BY MOTORCYCLE-RIDING GUNMEN AT NOON TODAY.
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO TODAY ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENT OF ARIEL RIVERA IRIAS AS THE NEW FOREIGN MINISTER TO REPLACE MARIO PALENCIA.
SEVERAL ARMED CLASHES WITHIN NATIONAL TERRITORY ON 8 OCTOBER RESULTED IN AT LEAST 8 KILLED AND MORE THAN 20 INJURED, INCLUDING GUERILLAS AND SOLDIERS, A GOVERNMENT REPORT SAID TODAY.
JOSE RAFAEL ABELLO SILVA, CHIEF OF THE DRUG TRAFFICKING CARTEL ON THE COAST AND FOURTH MAN IN THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, WAS ARRESTED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY, DAS, IN NORTHERN BOGOTA DURING THE LAST FEW HOURS.
SEVERAL SALVADORAN SECTORS HAVE CONDEMNED THE MURDER OF THE WIFE OF THE DEPUTY EDITOR OF EL DIARIO DE HOY.
THROUGH DECREE NO. 1003 THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH HAS PARDONED SEVERAL TERRORISTS FROM DIFFERENT ARMED ORGANIZATIONS AND SOME MEMBERS OF URUGUAY'S MILITARY AND POLICE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE REPRESSION OF TERRORISM IN ARGENTINA.
ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER DOMINGO CAVALLO AND HIS PERUVIAN COUNTERPART GUILLERMO LARCO COX SIGNED THREE INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS TODAY IN TRUJILLO, LIBERTAD DEPARTMENT.
APPROXIMATELY 1,600 SALVADORANS HAVE VOICED THEIR DETERMINATION TO RETURN TO EL SALVADOR ON 17 OCTOBER, WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S APPROVAL, AFTER HAVING REMAINED AS REFUGEES IN A HONDURAN CAMP SINCE THE EARLY 80'S.
THE FAMILY OF NORBERTO RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, THE BROTHER-IN-LAW OF VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ, SAID TODAY THAT THE PEOPLE WHO KIDNAPPED 72-YEAR-OLD RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ ARE ASKING FOR $10 MILLION, APPROXIMATELY 4.1 BILLION PESOS, FOR HIS RELEASE.
THIS YEAR, FRANCE WILL GRANT ECUADOR A 310 MILLION-FRANC LOAN AND A NON-REPAYABLE LOAN FOR 20 MILLION.
THE WAVE OF CRIMINAL ATTACKS TO WHICH COLOMBIAN JOURNALISTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING SUBJECTED CONTINUED LAST NIGHT WHEN WILLIAM BENDECK OLIVELLA, DIRECTOR OF A RADIO NEWSCAST IN THE NORTHERN CITY OF MONTERIA, WAS KILLED BY UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS.
WE HAD BEEN LEFT COMPLETELY ALONE AND ISOLATED FROM THE WORLD, THE POPULAR GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN OVERTHROWN, THE DICTATORSHIP HAD SCATTERED CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND ANONYMOUS DEAD AROUND THE COUNTRY, CONGRESS WAS CLOSED, ALL LEFTIST COMMUNICATION MEDIA WERE ALSO CLOSED, AND THE IMAGE OF THE DICTATORSHIP MONOPOLIZED THE TELEVISION SCREENS.
VICTOR POLAY, THE LEADER OF THE PERUVIAN TERRORIST TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (MRTA) GROUP, TODAY ADMITTED THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE MRTA WILL PROPOSE HIS RELEASE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE RELEASE OF TELEVISION IMPRESARIO HECTOR DELGADO PARKER.
IT IS A PLEASURE FOR ME TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO FOR THE SECOND TIME, IN MY ROLE AS PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, TO TO CONTINUE REVIEWING -- 6 MONTHS LATER -- ISSUES WHICH ARE OF MUTUAL INTEREST TO OUR TWO NATIONS.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE BASE AND COWARDLY MURDER OF MS DOLORES ISABEL CASANOVA PORRAS, CARRIED OUT THIS MORNING BY FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORISTS IN SANTA TECLA AS THE INNOCENT VICTIM WAS ON HER WAY TO HER SPORTS EXERCISES.
NO CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT WAS REACHED AT THE END OF THE SECOND DAY OF THE CURRENT ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN DELEGATES OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) AND THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT.
THE AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT RADIO ANNOUNCER DIEGO VARGAS ESCOBAR WAS ASSASSINATED TODAY IN MEDELLIN, IN NORTHWESTERN COLOMBIA.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] TODAY AGREED TO INSTITUTIONALIZE THE DIALOGUE AND TO MEET IN OTHER COUNTRIES EVERY MONTH DESPITE THE DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES.
PERU HAS GIVEN BOLIVIA FREE ZONES IN TWO PERUVIAN PORTS TO FACILITATE THAT COUNTRY'S ACCESS TO THE SEA.
SPECIAL SECURITY MEASURES WERE ADOPTED AT THE CONGRESS TODAY.
RUBEN ZAMORA, LEADER OF THE POPULAR SOCIAL CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONVERGENCE, WAS UNHARMED FOLLOWING A TERRORIST ATTACK.
[LARIOS] THIS HAS REALLY BEEN AN AGREEMENT THAT REFLECTS THE GOVERNMENT'S INTERESTS, AS WELL AS THE INTERESTS OF THE TERRORIST FRONT.
TODAY, WE HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT A VERY PAINFUL EVENT THAT OCCURRED IN BARRANQUILLA.
AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO DEAL SUCCESSFUL BLOWS AGAINST TERRORISM.
BRITAIN AND ARGENTINA TODAY AGREED TO RESUME THEIR CONSULAR RELATIONS AND DIRECT AIR AND SEA LINKS SEVERED DURING THEIR WAR OVER SOVEREIGNTY OF THE MALVINAS (FALKLANDS) ISLANDS SEVEN YEARS AGO.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHAIRMAN OF THE ARMED FORCES JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, TODAY SAID THAT THE WEAPONS CONFISCATED BY HONDURAN TROOPS WERE SENT FROM NICARAGUA AND INTENDED FOR THE URBAN PONCE REFERRED TO THE RECENT SEIZURE OF WEAPONS FROM A VAN WITH A SALVADORAN LICENSE PLATE WHICH WERE SENT BY THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT VIA COSTA RICA TO THE FMLN.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA DECREED A 3-DAY NATIONAL MOURNING PERIOD IN THE WAKE OF THE SAHSA BOEING 727 PLANE CRASH IN WHICH 65 NICARAGUANS WHERE AMONG THE PASSENGERS.
ACCORDING TO UNOFFICIAL REPORTS AT LEAST 80 PERCENT OF THE APPROXIMATELY 130 PASSENGERS WHO WERE KILLED IN TODAY'S CRASH OF A HONDURAN AIRLINE SASHA BOEING 727 WHICH OCCURRED IN SOUTHERN TEGUCIGALPA WERE FOREIGNERS.
THE ARSENAL CONFISCATED IN HONDURAS CONFIRMS THE SANDINIST GOVERNMENT VIOLATION OF THE TELA AGREEMENTS.
AFTER MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MENEM, FORMER MONTONEROS CHIEFS FERNANDO VACA NARVAJA AND ROBERTO CIRILO PERDIA HAVE STATED THAT THEY WILL BECOME "LEADERS" OF THE NATIONAL RECONCILIATION MOVEMENT AND ENTIRELY SUPPORT THE JUSTICIALIST GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC PROGRAM.
A MILITARY SPOKESMEN HAS SAID THAT TWO POLICEMEN AND THREE GUERRILLAS WERE KILLED TODAY DURING CLASHES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF COLOMBIA.
SAN SALVADOR RADIO CADENA YSKL IN SPANISH AT 1212 GMT ON 9 OCTOBER REPORTS THAT "ACCORDING TO 3D INFANTRY BRIGADE COMMANDER COLONEL MAURICIO ERNESTO VARGAS," BELLOSO BATTALION TROOPS SEIZED FIVE SOVIET-MADE AK-47 RIFLES, 2,000 CARTRIDGES, AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF EXPLOSIVES FOLLOWING A CLASH WITH SUBVERSIVE ELEMENTS IN SAN CRISTOBAL CANTON, SESORI MUNICIPALITY, SAN MIGUEL DEPARTMENT.
THE GROUP OF "EXTRADITABLES" IN COLOMBIA, BELIEVED TO BE THE ARMED BRANCH OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, SAID TODAY THAT IT IS PREPARED TO DECLARE A TRUCE IF THE CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC FORMS A "GRAND COMMISSION ON A DIALOGUE FOR PEACE."
THE POSSIBILITIES FOR A DIALOGUE WITH DRUG TRAFFICKERS HAVE INCREASED IN COLOMBIA DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS AFTER THE EXTRADITABLES ANNOUNCED THEY ARE WILLING TO END THE WAR.
THE GOVERNMENT SAID TODAY THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO EXTRADITE COLOMBIAN CITIZENS SOUGHT BY THE UNITED STATES.
A DISPATCH FROM LIMA.
TWO POLICEMEN GUARDING THE ECUADORAN CONSULATE IN MEDELLIN WERE KILLED TODAY BY UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN, IT WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA ANNOUNCED TONIGHT IN THE COSTA RICAN CAPITAL THAT HE WILL SUSPEND THE UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE DECREED ON 21 MARCH 1988, AND WILL IMPROVE THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS COUNTRY'S DEFENSE BECAUSE "WE CANNOT GO ON WITH OUR HANDS TIED."
ON THE MORNING OF 26 OCTOBER THE EDITORIAL OFFICE RECEIVED TELEGRAMS FROM REUTERS AND AFP FROM THE PERUVIAN CAPITAL, WHICH SAID THAT BOMBS HAD GONE OFF THE DAY BEFORE OUTSIDE THE SOVIET AND PRC EMBASSIES IN LIMA.
FIVE WOMEN WERE MURDERED AND THEIR BODIES THROWN FROM A MOVING VEHICLE EARLY THIS MORNING IN EL POBLADO NEIGHBORHOOD OF MEDELLIN.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI SAID TODAY THAT THE DECISION TO SUSPEND THE CEASE-FIRE IN NICARAGUA, AS IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED BY NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA, WOULD BE "VERY UNFORTUNATE" AND "WOULD POSE PROBLEMS FOR THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PEACE PLAN."
"THE EXTRADITABLES" CLANDESTINE GROUP TODAY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR LAST NIGHT'S DYNAMITE ATTACK AGAINST A POLICE AIR BASE AT GUAIMARAL, 25 KM TO THE NORTH OF BOGOTA, KILLING A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER.
PERUVIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER EMILIO REYNOSO AGUILAR, ALIAS "RETACO I," ARRIVED IN LIMA TODAY UNDER STRICT POLICE SECURITY.
RADIO VENCEREMOS IN SPANISH TO EL SALVADOR AT 0000 GMT ON 30 OCTOBER BROADCASTS A WEEKLY MILITARY BULLETIN.
COLOMBIA'S ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) GUERRILLAS HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTACK, IN WHICH FIVE VENEZUELAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED, ON THE BORDER AREA BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER DOMINGO CAVALLO TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT HAS ASKED THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TO "INTERCEDE WITH THE OTHER CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND WITH ANYONE ELSE THAT MAY HAVE INFLUENCE OVER THE CONTRAS" TO MAKE THEM DISBAND.
AT 0920 TODAY POWERFUL EXPLOSIONS WERE FELT IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF SAN SALVADOR.
THERE WAS A STRONG EXPLOSION EARLY THIS MORNING.
[BELTRAN] A BOMB IN A CAR PARKED OUTSIDE THE FENSATRAS [SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION] BUILDING DETONATED AND CAUSED A STRONG EXPLOSION.
THE ATTACK WITH EXPLOSIVES THAT HAS BEEN PERPETRATED BY UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS AGAINST THE OFFICE OF THE OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO COMMITTEE OF MOTHERS, RELATIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, MISSING, AND MURDERED PEOPLE, LEFT FOUR WOUNDED AND SUBSTANTIAL PROPERTY DAMAGE.
MEDICAL SOURCES HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT OPPOSITION LABOR LEADER FEBE ELIZABETH VELAZQUEZ DIED IN A HOSPITAL THIS AFTERNOON AS A RESULT OF THE DYNAMITE ATTACK AGAINST THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION (FENASTRAS).
SEVERAL SALVADORAN LEFTWING PARTIES AND LABOR UNIONS HAVE SCHEDULED A GENERAL STRIKE ON 1 NOVEMBER TO PROTEST THE ATTACK PERPETRATED TODAY AGAINST A LABOR UNION HEADQUARTERS, CAUSING 9 DEATHS AND INJURING MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TONIGHT CONDEMNED THE "TERRORIST" DYNAMITE ATTACKS AGAINST A UNION AND A HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION, WHICH KILLED 9 PEOPLE AND INJURED 36 AND EXPRESSED HIS CONDOLENCES TO THE VICTIMS' RELATIVES.
CONCERNING THE MASSACRE AT THE FENASTRAS [SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION] HEADQUARTERS, THE FMLN REPORTS THE FOLLOWING:
LIBERAL PARTY MEMBER FABIO ROA, CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF PUERTO LOPEZ, META DEPARTMENT, IN THE COUNTRY'S SOUTHEAST, AND HIS BROTHER - IN - LAW NORBERTO SAAVEDRA WERE SHOT TO DEATH IN A BUSY STREET OF THIS TOWN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, IT HAS BEEN REPORTED IN BOGOTA.
FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] FORCES TODAY ATTACKED THE 4TH INFANTRY BRIGADE INSTALLATIONS IN EL REFUGIO, CHALATENANGO DEPARTMENT.
THE RED CROSS HAS ANNOUNCED THAT ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED BY THE EXPLOSION OF A CAR CIRCULATING THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE SALVADORAN ARMY'S 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE IN SAN SALVADOR.
MARIELA ESPINOZA VILLEGAS, A HIGHER COURT MAGISTRATE IN ANTIOQUIA, WAS ASSASSINATED THIS EVENING IN MEDELLIN.
THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT TODAY TURNED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INTERNAL ORDER IN LIMA OVER TO THE ARMED FORCES, 2 DAYS BEFORE AN "ARMED STRIKE" DECLARED BY THE MAOIST SHINING PATH TERRORIST GROUP GOES INTO EFFECT.
FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW, THE BLOODBATH CONTINUES TO ROCK THIS CAPITAL CITY AND THE END TO THIS SITUATION, WHICH IS ALARMING THE PEOPLE, DOES NOT SEEM TO BE NEAR.
THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT TODAY CONDEMNED THE DYNAMITE ATTACK ON THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION [FENASTRAS].
THE GUERRILLAS' ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY THAT THEY DECIDED TO SUSPEND THEIR DIALOGUE WITH THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT CAUSED GREAT SURPRISE AMONG VARIOUS CIRCLES IN THE COUNTRY THAT VOWED TO MAKE NEW EFFORTS TO REESTABLISH THEM.
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ AND COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS ARE WORKING HARD SO THAT THE BREAK IN THE TALKS BETWEEN THE GUERILLAS AND THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT WILL BE ONLY TEMPORARY.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT HIS GOVERNMENT WILL ATTEND THE MEETING WITH THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS SCHEDULED FOR 20 NOVEMBER IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA, DESPITE THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT'S (FMLN) DECISION TO SUSPEND THE DIALOGUE.
VICE PRESIDENT FRANCISCO MERINO SAYS THAT THE GUERRILLAS ARE HURTING THEMSELVES BY CARRYING OUT ATTACKS SUCH AS THE ONE PERPETRATED RECENTLY.
CONCERNING THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] COMMUNIQUE, THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT HEREBY ANNOUNCES THE FOLLOWING:
COLONEL FRANCISCO ELENA FUENTES, COMMANDER OF THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE, IN ANALYZING RECENT ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN SAN SALVADOR, HAS REPORTED THAT GROUPS OUT OF THE CONTROL OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT - REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT [FMLN -FDR] ALLIANCE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MOST RECENT ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THIS CAPITAL THAT A DELEGATION OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) WILL MEET THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON WITH UN AND OAS REPRESENTATIVES TO ANALYZE THE COUNTRY'S SITUATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE TALKS BETWEEN THE REBELS AND ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S ADMINISTRATION.
THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAS APPROVED BY A MAJORITY VOTE AN ANTI-NICARAGUAN RESOLUTION WHICH GRANTS $4 MILLION WORTH OF SO-CALLED HUMANITARIAN AID FOR THE CONTRAS.
SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND FIVE WOUNDED TODAY IN A BOMB ATTACK THAT DESTROYED A PEASANT HOME IN THE TOWN OF QUINCHIA, ABOUT 300 KM WEST OF BOGOTA, IN THE COFFEE-GROWING DEPARTMENT OF RISARALDA, QUINCHIA MAYOR SAUL BOTERO HAS REPORTED.
POLICE SOURCES REPORTED TODAY THAT JORGE CASTILLO GARCIA, NICARAGUAN CONSUL IN COSTA RICA, WHO CAME HERE TO PROMOTE THE DEMOBILIZATION OF THE CONTRAS, WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
THE COUNTRY IS EXPERIENCING ONE OF THE WORST ANTICOMMUNIST AND TERRORIST CAMPAIGNS IN A LONG TIME.
THREE MILITANTS OF THE SALVADORAN LEFTIST SOCIAL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT (MPSC) HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ARMY SOLDIERS IN THE CITY OF SONSONATE, APPROXIMATELY 50 KM WEST OF SAN SALVADOR, ACCORDING TO MEMBERS OF THAT POLITICAL ORGANIZATION.
SUBUNITS OF THE PERUVIAN GROUND FORCES AND POLICE, SUPPORTED BY ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS, HAVE CONDUCTED A MAJOR OPERATION TO ARREST GROUPS OF ARMED EXTREMISTS ON THE STUDENT CAMPUS OF THE SAN MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY.
THE LAUTARO POPULAR REBEL FORCES [FRPL] AND THE LAUTARO YOUTH MOVEMENT [MJL] HELD THEIR CLANDESTINE PLENARY SESSION IN SANTIAGO 5 MONTHS AGO.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY SAID TODAY THAT TWO "ATTACKERS" HAD LOST THEIR LIVES WHEN THEY CONFRONTED SOLDIERS AFTER HAVING "ROBBED AND RAPED" THE OWNER OF A BUSINESS IN A CITY OF WESTERN EL SALVADOR.
THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT RULED TODAY THAT THE STRIKE BY JUDICIAL BRANCH EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES, IS ILLEGAL.
THE MSGR OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO FEDERATION OF COMMITTEES OF MOTHERS AND RELATIVES, FECMAFAM, HAS CRITICIZED THE VISIT TO OUR COUNTRY BY BERNARD ARONSON, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTER - AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
THE POLICE HAS REPORTED THAT ALLEGED MEMBERS OF THE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) KIDNAPPED TODAY TWO MEXICANS IN THE ARAUCA OIL ZONE, NEAR THE COLOMBIAN-VENEZUELAN BORDER.
WITH JUST THREE DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 12 NOVEMBER, TERRORISTS HAVE STEPPED UP THEIR VIOLENCE AND SECURITY FORCES HAVE INTENSIFIED THEIR ANTISUBVERSIVE OPERATIONS IN SEVERAL PERUVIAN REGIONS.
THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI YESTERDAY REAFFIRMED ITS WILLINGNESS TO THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE THE ATTACK AGAINST FENASTRAS [SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION].
LUIS CORVALAN, FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY [PCCH], HAS REQUESTED A NUREMBERG-STYLE TRIAL FOR MEMBERS OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IF PATRICIO AYLWIN WINS THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS.
JUDICIAL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT THE BODY OF AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN WAS FOUND ON 9 NOVEMBER ON A ROAD 17 KM FROM SAN SALVADOR.
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS ASKED COLOMBIA TO INTERVENE IN PROTECTING AND FACILITATING THE RELEASE OF THE MEXICAN CITIZEN JUAN CARLOS MIR, KIDNAPPED LAST TUESDAY BY A COLOMBIAN GUERRILLA GROUP.
"THERE MAY BE SOME LINKS BETWEEN THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] AND SOME CHILEAN GUERRILLA GROUPS," SALVADORAN FOREIGN MINISTER DR MANUEL PACAS CASTRO SAID IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE.
FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] MILITIAMEN AND URBAN GUERRILLAS INFLICTED 261 CASUALTIES ON THE ARMED FORCES DURING OCTOBER.
MEXICAN NARCOTICS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED COLOMBIAN CITIZEN JORGE HUMBERTO CHALARIA, KNOWN AS "EL NEGRO," THE REPRESENTATIVE IN MEXICO OF COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "EL MEXICANO," THE TOP CHIEF OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE (PGR) MADE KNOWN TODAY.
PEREIRA -- THREE PERSONS WERE INJURED AND HEAVY MATERIAL DAMAGE WAS REPORTED DURING A NEW TERRORIST WAVE THAT HIT PEREIRA LAST NIGHT.
THE PATRIOTIC RESISTANCE FRONT 1827 [EJERCITO DE RESISTENCIA PATRIOTICA 1827], (ERP-27), A HERETOFORE UNKNOWN LEFTIST GUERRILLA ORGANIZATION, ANNOUNCED ITS PRESENCE TODAY IN HONDURAS WITH A PROPAGANDA ACTION.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT HAS SAID THAT TODAY'S ATTACK ON THE NATIONAL GUARD HEADQUARTERS -- IN WHICH TWO CHILDREN WERE KILLED AND EIGHT PEOPLE WERE INJURED -- SHOWS THAT THE GUERRILLAS "DO NOT WANT PEACE AND WANT TO ESCALATE VIOLENCE."
RIGHT NOW WE ARE HEARING HEAVY SHOOTING NEAR TO THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE.
GOOD EVENING SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
SEVERAL ATTACKS ARE TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW IN SEVERAL PARTS OF THE CITY OF SAN SALVADOR.
THE JOINT STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES INFORMS THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE THAT THE TERRORISTS HAVE TRIED TO HARM OUR PEOPLE EVEN MORE BY USING VIOLENT ACTIONS AGAINST THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES.
AN ATTACK AGAINST THE NATIONAL POLICE AT CUSCATANCINGO BEGAN APPROXIMATELY 15-20 MINUTES AGO.
TWO HOURS AFTER THE LAUNCHING OF A GUERRILLA OFFENSIVE AGAINST MILITARY POSITIONS, THE SOUND OF MACHINEGUNS AND EXPLOSIVE DEVICES IS STILL BEING HEARD IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL.
NINE PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED--SEVEN CIVILIANS AND TWO SOLDIERS--DURING AN OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS IN THE CAPITAL AND OTHER SALVADORAN CITIES, HUMANITARIAN INSTITUTIONS HAVE REPORTED.
ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO EL SALVADOR WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AND TWO AMBULANCES OF THE SALVADORAN RED CROSS WERE MACHINEGUNNED IN A CROSSFIRE DURING HEAVY CLASHES TONIGHT IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CAPITAL.
AT LEAST 30 CIVILIANS WERE WOUNDED IN THE FIERCE CLASHES THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE CAPITAL CITY LATE LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING AT DIFFERENT PLACES IN SAN SALVADOR, MEDICAL SOURCES REPORTED.
WE WANT TO ASK FOR EVERYONE'S COOPERATION REGARDING THE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES THAT ARE TAKING PLACE.
TEL AVIV IDF RADIO IN HEBREW AT 1030 GMT ON 12 NOVEMBER CARRIES THE FOLLOWING BULLETIN:
NINE HOURS AFTER A SERIES OF ATTACKS WERE LAUNCHED SIMULTANEOUSLY BY THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, ONE CAN STILL HEAR THE EXPLOSIONS OF POWERFUL BOMBS, THE STRAFING OF REBEL POSITIONS BY AIR FORCE HELICOPTERS, AND HEAVY RIFLE FIRE.
THE ARMED FORCES JOINT COMMAND IS ASKING SALVADORAN CITIZENS TO PLEASE BE CALM AND REMAIN AT HOME.
WE HAVE A REPORT WHICH SAYS THAT FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] FORCES HAVE SEIZED CONTROL OF THE SAN SALVADOR - SANTA ANA HIGHWAY, INTERRUPTING TRAFFIC ALONG THIS IMPORTANT HIGHWAY TO SANTA ANA.
[CRISTIANI, IN PROGRESS] .
SAN SALVADOR DOMESTIC SERVICE IN SPANISH AT 1628 GMT ON 12 NOVEMBER BEGINS CARRYING LIVE AN ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI OVER A NATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION NETWORK.
THE ARMED FORCES INFORM THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE THAT SEVERAL AREAS OF SAN SALVADOR HAVE BEEN ATTACKED.
THE DAUGHTER OF THE EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TO EL SALVADOR, WHO HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE RED CROSS AS NEDINA ELKACHES [AS RECEIVED], WAS WOUNDED IN THIS CAPITAL THE EVENING OF 11 NOVEMBER DURING HEAVY CLASHES BETWEEN ARMY TROOPS AND FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) GUERRILLAS.
SALVADORAN, CENTRAL AMERICAN, LATIN AMERICAN BROTHERS: YOU ARE LISTENING TO RADIO VENCEREMOS, THE VOICE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH DETERMINATION TO ATTAIN DEMOCRACY.
SAN SALVADOR DOMESTIC SERVICE IN SPANISH AT 2005 GMT ON 12 NOVEMBER BEGINS COVERAGE OF A LIVE SPEECH BY SALVADORAN DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL RAFAEL HUMBERTO LARIOS ON THE ONGOING REBEL OFFENSIVE IN EL SALVADOR.
CIVILIAN AUTHORITIES IN THE CITY OF HUANCAYO, 415 KM EAST OF LIMA, HAVE REPORTED THAT 35 EXPLOSIONS WERE REPORTED TODAY BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE BALLOTING STATIONS FOR THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
HERE IS REPORT FROM THE COUNTRY'S CENTRAL ZONE, NAMELY, SAN SALVADOR AND THE OUTSKIRTS AREA.
IN THE CITY OF USULUTAN, USULUTAN DEPARTMENT, OUR UNITS ARE HOLDING POSITIONS IN THE NORTH OF THAT CITY.
RADIO VENCEREMOS NOW ANNOUNCES TO OUR PEOPLE, AS WELL AS TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS, WAR REPORT NO. 1 ON OUR NATIONAL MILITARY MANUEVER.
COLONEL FRANCISCO ELENA FUENTES, COMMANDER OF THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE, TODAY REFUTED THE CHARGES RAISED BY THE NONGOVERNMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION THAT HIS BRIGADE HAS DEATH SQUADS AND CLANDESTINE JAILS.
WE HAVE RECEIVED A LAST MINUTE REPORT FROM SAN MIGUEL.
A GUERRILLA MEMBER DIED ON SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER WHILE ATTACKING THE RESIDENCE OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY VICE PRESIDENT ROBERTO ANGULO, WHO ESCAPED THE ATTACK UNHARMED.
GOOD AFTERNOON, SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
[LARIOS, IN PROGRESS] .
THE SALVADORAN ARMY ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THIS WEEKEND'S GUERRILLA OFFENSIVE HAS RESULTED IN 127 DEAD AND 155 WOUNDED, WHILE THE REBELS CLAIM THEY HAVE INFLICTED OVER 400 CASUALTIES ON THE GOVERNMENT FORCES.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES INFORM THE PEOPLE OF EL SALVADOR THAT FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN LOOTING AND ACTS OF VANDALISM IN AREAS AROUND SAN SALVADOR BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO FACE THE ARMY, WHICH DISMANTLED ITS PLAN TO CREATE A STATE OF REBELLION.
THE SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION (FENASTRAS) TODAY ACCUSED ITS COUNTRY'S ARMY OF "UNLEASHING VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION BY DROPPING ROCKETS AND BOMBS FROM SALVADORAN AIR FORCE AIRPLANES AND HELICOPTERS AND LEAVING A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF VICTIMS."
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI DECLARED A STATE OF SIEGE IN THE COUNTRY ON SUNDAY.
FIGHTING HAS CONTINUED IN SAN MIGUEL.
ACCORDING TO CIVILIAN EYEWITNESSES, SALVADORAN ARMY TROOPS BOMBED THE UNIVERSITY'S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.
THIS IS A LAST MINUTE REPORT FROM THE CAPITAL.
WE REAFFIRM OUR APPEAL TO HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS, THE OAS, AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS, AND WE MAKE A SPECIAL CALL TO COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE, TO CONTACT THE CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT AND THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE FASCIST ARMED FORCES TO PRESSURE THEM TO STOP THEIR BOMBINGS.
[VARGAS, IN PROGRESS] .
IN FRONT OF US WE HAVE A MAP OF SAN SALVADOR, WHERE OUR COMRADES ARE BUILDING BARRICADES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
THE VEHICLE OF MEXICAN TELEVISION NEWSMAN EPIGMENIO IBARRA WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED BY A POWERFUL BOMB TODAY, BUT IBARRA WAS NOT HURT.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ARMED FORCES PRESS COMMITTEE (COPREFA) HAS REPORTED THAT, IN ADDITION TO 30 DEAD CIVILIANS, MORE THAN 200 SOLDIERS AND GUERRILLAS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN FIERCE CLASHES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE AT NIGHT SINCE 11 NOVEMBER IN THE CAPITAL AND SEVERAL KEY SALVADORAN CITIES.
THIS IS A LAST MINUTE REPORT BROUGHT TO YOU THROUGH THE NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY NETWORK, RADIO FARABUNDO MARTI AND RADIO VENCEREMOS IN NETWORK BROADCASTING TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
REBEL GUERRILLA UNITS HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE COASTAL RAILROAD LINES NEAR LA CASONA, JIQUILISCO JURISDICTION.
URGENT.
APPROXIMATELY 100 SALVADORAN ARMY SOLDIERS BEGAN A COUNTEROFFENSIVE AT 1650 (2250 GMT) WITH ARMORED VEHICLES AND CANONS IN AN EFFORT TO OUST APPROXIMATELY 150 GUERRILLA FIGHTERS WHO HAVE ENTRENCHED THEMSELVES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MEJICANOS IN NORTHERN SAN SALVADOR.
THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] IS USING DISINFORMATION BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN BEATEN BY THE ARMED FORCES.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT DENOUNCES BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THE MEDDLING OF THE SANDINIST GOVERNMENT IN THE ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AT THE HANDS OF FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST GROUPS.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY'S COUNTERATTACK AGAINST REBEL POSITIONS IN MEJICANOS, ON THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE CAPITAL CITY, WAS SUSPENDED AT 1745 (2345 GMT), 1 HOUR AFTER IT BEGAN AND SO FAR THERE ARE NO REPORTS ON THE RESULTS OF IT.
SINCE 1981 THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] HAS BEEN INSISTING ON THE NEED FOR A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE WAR.
PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IF WE EVICT FROM POWER THOSE WHO HAVE PROFITED FROM WAR.
NICARAGUA PRESENTED A DRAFT RESOLUTION TO STOP THE SALVADORAN CONFLICT AND SEEK A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO THE SALVADORAN SITUATION AT THE 29TH ANNUAL OAS MEETING HELD ON 13 NOVEMBER 1989.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION, WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A REPORT FROM SAN MIGUEL ON INDISCRIMINATE SHELLING IN SAN MIGUEL.
HERE IS AN IMPORTANT REPORT FROM SAN MIGUEL.
THIS MORNING OUR UNITS TOURED SEVERAL AREAS IN SAN SALVADOR AND THE OUTLYING MUNICIPALITIES.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY REPORTED TODAY THAT 909 PERSONS -- SOLDIERS, REBELS, AND CIVILIANS - - HAVE BEEN KILLED OR WOUNDED IN THE PAST 3 DAYS AS A RESULT OF THE FIGHTING GOING ON.
HERE IS A REPORT ON ARMED FORCES MILITARY ACTIONS: IN THE 1ST MILITARY ZONE CLASHES WERE REPORTED IN THE AREAS OF SAN JOSE GUAYABAL AND SAN MARTIN, WHERE THE REBELS WERE TURNED BACK BY THE SOLDIERS ASSIGNED TO THE AREAS.
WHILE TRYING TO GUARANTEE THE CITIZENS' SECURITY AND DEFEND DEMOCRACY IN EL SALVADOR, ARMED FORCES TROOPS HAVE DISCOVERED A SAFE HOUSE OF THE TERRORIST GROUPS IN SAN MARCOS AND SEIZED 6 HIGH-CALIBER RIFLES, 12,485 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, 330 POUNDS OF EXPLOSIVES, 16 FRAGMENTATION GRENADES, 1,520 DYNAMITE BLASTING CAPS, AND 2 RADIOS.
AN OPPOSITION LABOR FEDERATION ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT IT WILL CALL A GENERAL STRIKE IF THE AIR FORCE CONTINUES TO BOMB NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL AND CALLED FOR AN INITIAL CLOSING DOWN OF WORK CENTERS TO COMPEL THE GOVERNMENT TO HOLD TALKS WITH THE GUERRILLAS.
OUR FORCES HAVE ALSO ENGAGED TROOPS POSTED AT THE PRESIDENTE HOTEL AND IN ITS VICINITY, BUT ONCE AGAIN RESPECTED THE U.S. AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE.
WE HAVE A REPORT FROM OUR COMMANDING POST IN SAN SALVADOR.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION, SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
ATTENTION, THIS IS A LAST-MINUTE REPORT FROM SAN SALVADOR: OUR FORCES HAVE OCCUPIED POSITIONS HELD BY THE NATIONAL POLICE IN CUSCATANCINGO.
POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC SOURCES TODAY REVEALED THAT THE GUERRILLAS TRIED TO KIDNAP SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT ON 11 NOVEMBER WHEN THEY LAUNCHED THE LARGEST MILITARY OFFENSIVE OF THE PAST 10 YEARS.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI DENIED THIS AFTERNOON THAT THE GUERRILLAS HAVE "LIBERATED TERRITORIES" IN THE COUNTRY, AS WAS ANNOUNCED BY THE CLANDESTINE "RADIO VENCEREMOS."
A LEADER OF THE INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT IN EL SALVADOR TODAY SAID IN MANAGUA THAT THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN THAT THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS HAVE LAUNCHED AGAINST ARMY TROOPS ON VARIOUS FRONTS AIMS TO CREATE THE APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS FOR A "GENUINE DIALOGUE" WITH GUARANTEES FOR THE PEOPLE.
SALVADORAN DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL HUMBERTO LARIOS DECLARED TODAY THAT BETWEEN 1,000 AND 1,500 FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) GUERRILLAS HAVE BEEN FIGHTING IN THE CAPITAL SINCE LAST SATURDAY.
THE ARMY FAILED TODAY IN ITS ATTEMPT TO RECOVER THE POSITIONS TAKEN OVER BY OUR FORCES ON 11 NOVEMBER IN THE COUNTRY'S MAIN CITIES.
OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT 220 TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN KILLED, 196 WOUNDED, AND 22 CAPTURED DURING THE CLASHES THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE AREA OF THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS OUTSKIRTS.
GOOD EVENING, SALVADORAN PEOPLE--IF I MAY SAY, SO DESPITE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE CAPITAL CITY.
THIS IS A LAST-MINUTE REPORT.
GUATEMALAN SECURITY FORCES LAST NIGHT DEFUSED A BOMB PLANTED IN FRONT OF THE SALVADORAN EMBASSY IN GUATEMALA CITY, THE POLICE REPORTED TODAY.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY TODAY ATTACKED BY LAND AND AIR THE GUERRILLAS WHO EARLY THIS MORNING OCCUPIED CIUDAD MERLIOT, A MIDDLE-CLASS RESIDENTIAL AREA IN SOUTHWESTERN SAN SALVADOR.
"ATTENTION, PAY CLOSE ATTENTION.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES HEREBY INFORM THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC PUBLIC OPINION THAT THEY EMPHATICALLY CONDEMN THE TREACHEROUS MURDER COMMITTED BY FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] GUERRILLAS AGAINST DR IGNACIO ELLACURIA, RECTOR OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, AS WELL AS OTHER UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS AT THIS CENTER OF HIGHER LEARNING.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION, THE ARMED FORCES' COUNTERATTACK ON OUR POSITIONS IN ZACAMIL HAS FAILED.
A SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (CICR) HAS DECLARED THAT THE CICR HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO ENTER THE AREAS AFFECTED BY LAST NIGHT'S FIERCE FIGHTING AND BOMBING "BECAUSE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES FROM THE GOVERNMENT."
SALVADORAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSE MANUEL PACAS CASTRO TODAY CONDEMNED THE ASSASSINATION OF SIX JESUITS AND TWO WOMEN IN HIS COUNTRY, AND HE BLAMED THE ULTRALEFTIST GROUPS FOR IT, ALTHOUGH HE SAID HE HAD NO PROOF.
THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] GENERAL COMMAND REPORTS THE FOLLOWING TO THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:
IN VIEW OF THE SINISTER MASSACRE OF JESUIT PRIESTS TODAY, THE FMLN REPORTS THE FOLLOWING TO THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE:
THE FIGHTING BETWEEN THE SALVADORAN ARMY AND THE GUERRILLAS AND THE CONSTANT AIR FORCE BOMBINGS OF POPULATED AREAS CONTINUED FOR THE 6TH CONSECUTIVE DAY TODAY, WHILE THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS FLED FROM THE MAIN AREAS OF FIGHTING.
ATTENTION.
COMMANDER FACUNDO GUARDADO, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLA MOVEMENT IN THE PAST DECADE, TODAY SAID THAT THE ARMY'S COUNTEROFFENSIVE IN SAN SALVADOR "IS AT A STALEMATE," WHILE THE "REBELS ARE ADVANCING."
WHEN ANSWERING A QUESTION ON THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE SIX JESUITS AND TWO OTHER PERSONS COULD HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY THE MILITARY, SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI SAID TODAY THAT "IF THE ARMED FORCES PEOPLE DID IT, THE WEIGHT OF THE LAW WILL FALL ALSO ON THEM."
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI STATED TODAY HIS GOVERNMENT IS WILLING TO CONTINUE THE DIALOGUE WITH THE GUERRILLAS, BUT ONLY IF IT DESISTS FROM VIOLENCE AND JOINS THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
[CRISTIANI] FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF SIX MEMBERS OF HIS ORDER, INCLUDING IGNACIO ELLACURIA, RECTOR OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (UCA), "ARE THE SAME ONES WHO KILLED MSGR OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO, ARCHBISHOP OF SAN SALVADOR."
IN AN ANALYSIS OF THE VIOLENCE DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, THE INFORMATION OFFICE OF THE BUSINESS SECTOR (OFISEM) POINTS OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE AN ATMOSPHERE OF SECURITY FOR THE PEOPLE SO THAT THE ECONOMY CAN MOVE IN A MANNER FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY.
SALVADORAN PEOPLE: AFTER 5 DAYS OF COMBAT, CONFRONTING THIS ARMED AGGRESSION BY THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORISTS, [WORDS INDISTINCT] I WANT TO INFORM YOU OF THE SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE NATION:
SIX DAYS AFTER HAVING INITIATED OUR OFFENSIVE IN THE CAPITAL CITY AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, THERE HAS BEEN AN OVERWHELMING TREND TOWARD THE CONSOLIDATION AND BROADENING OF FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] POSITIONS IN IMPORTANT CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE COUNTRY, WHICH HAVE PLAYED LEADING ROLES BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE SUPPORTED AND JOINED THE STRUGGLE.
WE ARE IN CONTACT WITH SAN SALVADOR AND WE ARE RECEIVING MORE REPORTS ON THE PERSECUTION UNLEASHED AGAINST THE RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN SAN SALVADOR.
WE RECENTLY HEARD U.S. AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER ON A SALVADORAN TELEVISION NEWSCAST.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS WILL PAY AN OFFICIAL WORKING VISIT TO JAPAN FROM DECEMBER 5-8, A FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN SAID THURSDAY.
FIGHTING CONTINUES TODAY IN SAN SALVADOR, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE TRIUMPHALIST TONE OF THE SALVADORAN ARMY BEGINS TO CHANGE.
THIS MORNING, AND WITH A STUPID LOOK ON HIS FACE, U.S. AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER ASKED WHO HAD KILLED FATHER IGNACIO ELLACURIA.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS RECEIVED IN THIS NATIONAL RADIO-TELEVISION NETWORK, BRITISH NEWSMAN DAVID BLUNDY OF THE SUNDAY TIMES [AS HEARD] BECAME A VICTIM OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT, FMLN, BULLETS.
THE SALVADORAN OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATIONS TODAY PROPOSED THE CREATION OF A SALVATION JUNTA THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE ARMY AND THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT], HUMBERTO CENTENO -- LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION NATIONAL UNION OF SALVADORAN WORKERS [UNTS] -- HAS ANNOUNCED.
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN, MEXICAN, AND PANAMANIAN EPISCOPAL CONFERENCES "CONDEMN" AND "REPUDIATE" THE WAR IN EL SALVADOR AND DEMAND THAT THE CONFLICTING PARTIES TO DECLARE "AN IMMEDIATE CEASE - FIRE."
WE CONDEMN GUATEMALAN INTERFERENCE IN EL SALVADOR.
THE SPANISH DIPLOMATIC DELEGATION THAT WILL ATTEND THE FUNERALS OF THE JESUITS WHO WERE KILLED IN SAN SALVADOR ON 16 NOVEMBER LEFT FOR EL SALVADOR AT 0305 LOCAL TIME (0205 GMT) ABOARD A "BOEING 707" OF THE SPANISH AIR FORCE.
SALVADORAN PEOPLE: WE HAVE POWERFUL REASONS FOR ENSURING THAT JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED IN THIS REGRETTABLE INCIDENT IN WHICH FATHER ELLACURIA, OTHER PRIESTS, AND CIVILIANS WERE KILLED.
ON THE 7TH DAY OF THE OFFENSIVE, THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] HAS TAKEN A STRATEGIC TURN IN THE WAR, AS WE BEGIN TO STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN A NEW AND DEFINITE SCENARIO OF OPERATIONS IN THE CITIES, WITH THE INSURRECTIONAL PARTICIPATION OF THE PEOPLE SEEKING TO ACHIEVE PEACE AND DEMOCRACY.
PRD [DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY PARTY] COMMUNIQUE:
CAPTAIN VELASQUEZ, FROM THE 6TH INFANTRY BRIGADE COMMAND AT USULUTAN, REPORTS TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE SANTA CLARA, SAN RAFAEL, ALTAMIRA, GUEVARA, FLORIDA, AND PERALTA NEIGHBORHOODS -- WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOMES BY THE TERRORIST CRIMINALS -- THAT THEY MAY RETURN TO THEIR HOMES ON 18 NOVEMBER, BECAUSE THE TERRORIST CRIMINALS HAVE BEEN DISLODGED FROM THEIR POSITIONS.
FERNANDO CASTRO, DELEGATE OF THE GUERRILLA ORGANIZATION FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] IN HAVANA CITY, MADE HERE TODAY AN URGENT CALL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO PUT AN END TO THE GENOCIDE AND TO THE ESCALATION OF REPRESSION BY THE SALVADORAN REGIME.
A SPANISH DIPLOMATIC DELEGATION LED BY INOCENCIO ARIAS, UNDER SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ARRIVED TODAY IN EL SALVADOR TO MEET WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND TO ATTEMPT TO EVACUATE THE SPANIARDS THREATENED BY THE VIOLENCE IN THE COUNTRY.
IN A NOTE RELEASED BY THE FOREIGN MINISTRY, THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT STATES ITS INDIGNATION OVER THE NEWS ABOUT THE MURDER OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS IN EL SALVADOR.
[NEWS CONFERENCE WITH NORMAN LACAYO, NICARAGUAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN EL SALVADOR BY UNIDENTIFIED REPORTERS] [LACAYO, IN PROGRESS] .
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, HAS REPORTED THAT DURING CLASHES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY BETWEEN THE COURAGEOUS AND BRAVE SOLDIERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST CRIMINALS, THE ARMY HAS KILLED OR WOUNDED MORE THAN 1,000 REBELS.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION.
AFTER MEETING WITH HIS SPANISH COUNTERPART INOCENCIO ARIAS, SALVADORAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RICARDO VALDIVIESO SAID THAT THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT TODAY PROMISED TO INVESTIGATE "IN DETAIL" THE MURDER OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS WHO WERE MURDERED ON 16 NOVEMBER.
IN BRIEF COMMENTS UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN PANAMA CITY TODAY, GUILLERMO UNGO, LEADER OF EL SALVADOR'S CIVILIAN LEFT, DESCRIBED THE SALVADORAN ARMY'S COUNTEROFFENSIVE AS "SAVAGE AND GENOCIDAL."
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT SEEMS READY TO CARRY OUT THE INVESTIGATION REQUESTED BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT TO CLARIFY LAST THURSDAY'S MURDER OF EIGHT PEOPLE, SIX OF THEM JESUITS, OF WHOM FIVE WERE SPANIARDS.
GUILLERMO UNGO, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL AND MAIN LEADER OF THE SALVADORAN CIVILIAN LEFT, WILL MEET WITH THE PRESIDENTS OF VENEZUELA AND FRANCE AND THE PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
CARLOS SAENZ DE TEJADA, SECRETARY OF THE SPANISH EMBASSY, ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT WILL EVACUATE 52 SPANIARDS WHO LIVE IN SAN SALVADOR ON 19 NOVEMBER.
INOCENTE ARIAS, THE SPANISH UNDER FOREIGN SECRETARY, SAID TODAY THAT SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI "PROMISED TO CARRY OUT A PROMPT AND SERIOUS INVESTIGATION" AND "TO PUNISH THOSE RESPONSIBLE" FOR THE MURDER OF SIX JESUITS AND TWO WOMEN ON 16 NOVEMBER.
A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS ATTACKED THE SALVADORAN EMBASSY IN LIMA WITH EXPLOSIVES TONIGHT, CAUSING PROPERTY BUT NO PERSONAL DAMAGE, SALVADORAN AMBASSADOR TO PERU ROBERTO LINARES HAS REPORTED.
THE ARMED FORCES OF EL SALVADOR HEREBY REPORT TO THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE THE MILITARY SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY.
CIN REPORTS THE FOLLOWING TO THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE:
FIFTY-FIVE SPANIARDS WERE EVACUATED FROM EL SALVADOR TODAY FOR SECURITY REASONS IN AN AIR FORCE PLANE WHICH LEFT THE COUNTRY AT 1545 (2145 GMT) FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT COMALAPA.
THE FOLLOWING IS AN UPDATED REPORT OF THE MILITARY SITUATION.
EDUARDO COLORADO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF EL SALVADOR, STATED TODAY THAT THERE IS A PLAN, POSSIBLY PREPARED BY THE GUERRILLAS, TO ATTACK SALVADORAN BISHOPS AND "CREATE GREATER PROBLEMS FOR THE GOVERNMENT" OF ALFREDO CRISTIANI.
THE ARMED FORCES MAINTAIN CONTROL IN THE CAPITAL.
THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL, WHICH HAS BEEN THE SCENE OF FIERCE FIGHTING BETWEEN THE SALVADORAN ARMY AND GUERRILLAS OVER THE PAST WEEK, IS SLOWLY RETURNING TO NORMAL.
RELIABLE SOURCES HAVE INFORMED THE NATIONAL NETWORK THAT GUILLERMO ROJAS, THE LEFTIST TRADE UNION LEADER, DIED IN SOYAPANGO MUNICIPALITY WHERE HEAVY COMBAT BETWEEN THE SALVADORAN ARMY AND THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] CRIMINAL TERRORISTS HAS TAKEN PLACE.
HERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT THAT U.S. AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER SHOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION.
THE THREE SPANISH MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE BRIGADES, FREED TODAY BY THE SALVADORAN NATIONAL GUARD, SAID THAT THE AUTHORITIES ORDERED THEM TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY WERE SUSPECTED OF COLLABORATING WITH "TERRORIST DELINQUENTS."
THE MAIN COMMAND OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] HAS EXPRESSED SERIOUS CONCERN AT THE DIRECT U.S. INTERFERENCE IN THE SALVADORAN CONFLICT.
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH HAS SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES INTENDS TO CONTINUE MILITARY AND ECONOMIC AID TO EL SALVADOR, THE SCENE OF FIERCE CLASHES RECENTLY BETWEEN SALVADOREAN INSURGENTS AND THE PRO-AMERICAN REGIME'S ARMY.
A DISPATCH FROM THE CAPITAL REACHING OUR STATION AT 0715 [1315 GMT] THIS MORNING STATES: AT THIS MOMENT, 0715, FIGHTING HAS INTENSIFIED IN THE VICINITY OF THE SHERATON HOTEL, AS WELL AS IN THE ZONA ROSA.
WE HAVE SEEN DISPATCHES RELEASED BY U.S. NEWS AGENCIES REPORTING THAT THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] HAS TAKEN HOSTAGES.
WE BRIEFLY INTERRUPT OUR SCHEDULED PROGRAM TO BRING YOU A LAST MINUTE REPORT.
IMEVISION CORRESPONDENT FOR CENTRAL AMERICA EPIGMENIO IBARRA WAS DETAINED BY THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES FOR A FEW HOURS AFTER BEING IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN MERLIOT NEIGHBORHOOD.
IN AN IRRATIONAL ACT OF CRIMINAL TERRORISM, A GROUP OF FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] OUTLAWS OCCUPIED PART OF THE SHERATON HOTEL FACILITIES WITH THE MALEVOLENT INTENTION OF TAKING THE OAS SECRETARY GENERAL HOSTAGE.
THE ARMED FORCES HAS FOILED THE TERRORIST ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP THE OAS SECRETARY GENERAL IN THIS CAPITAL.
AUTHORIZED SPOKESPERSONS HAVE INFORMED THE NATIONAL NETOWRK THAT ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS WERE USED TO EVACUATE THE 20 PERSONS BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY THE TERRORIST FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT, FMLN, CRIMINALS AT THE SHERATON HOTEL.
[AGUDO] WELL, WE BELIEVE THAT TODAY IT IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT TO HEAR THE REMARKS OF COMRADE CASTRO OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] IN THIS PROGRAM.
HAVANA UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, WORKERS, AND STUDENTS HAVE REPUDIATED THE BRUTAL ASSASSINATION OF PRIESTS IGNACIO ELLACURIA AND IGNACIO MARTIN BORA, RECTOR AND VICE RECTOR OF ACADEMICS, RESPECTIVELY, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR [AS HEARD], WHO WERE KILLED BY THE SALVADORAN REGIME.
LIMA, 21 NOV 89 -- NEWSPAPER EXPRESO TODAY REPORTED THAT THE PERUVIAN POLICE HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT A NEW LEFTIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN NOTICED AND THAT THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE SUBJECT ARE AT QUITE AN ADVANCED STAGE.
THE ARMED FORCES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PUT AN END TO THE TERRORIST OPERATION CARRIED OUT AT THE SHERATON HOTEL.
THE EL DESPERTAR REFUGEE CENTER IN SAN SALVADOR, MANAGED BY JESUITS, WAS EVACUATED TODAY BECAUSE IT WAS HIT BY A MISSILE FIRED BY A MILITARY PLANE LAST NIGHT, RELIGIOUS AND DIPLOMATIC SOURCES HAVE SAID.
THE POLITICAL PARTIES, NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE, ARENA, AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT, MAC, AND THE NATIONAL CONCILIATION PARTY, PCN, HAVE SET UP A PERMANENT COMMITTEE AND EXPRESSED FULL SUPPORT FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ARMED FORCES, SOLIDARITY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI, AND RECOGNITION FOR THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY THE ARMED FORCES AS THE LEGITIMATE ARMED BRANCH OF THE PEOPLE.
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL STATIONED IN SAN MIGUEL HAVE CAPTURED THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST COMMANDER WHO GOES BY THE PSEUDONYM ARISTIDES; THIS TOOK PLACE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD IN THAT TOWN.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] DELEGATION FAILED TO SHOW UP IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA, TO CONTINUE THE DIALOGUE MEETINGS WITH THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT, AS WAS AGREED UPON BY BOTH PARTIES AT THE MEETINGS IN MEXICO CITY AND SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA.
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF CORREGIMIENTO REPRESENTATIVES, EXERCISING ITS LEGAL POWERS AND CONSIDERING:
TO THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA [ROC] WEDNESDAY EXPRESSED ITS REGRETS OVER THE EL SALVADORAN SITUATION THAT HAS RESULTED FROM MILITARY ATTACKS LAUNCHED BY LEFT-WING GUERRILLAS.
A COLOMBIAN CITIZEN WAS CAPTURED BY THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE IN PANAMA AFTER HE PLACED A BOMB IN A MOVIE THEATER AT ONE OF THE U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND'S MILITARY BASES.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION, SALVADORAN PEOPLE; ATTENTION, ATTENTION, SALVADORAN PEOPLE: THE NATIONAL INFORMATION CENTER, CIN, REPORTS THAT THE TERRORIST DELINQUENTS ARE SPREADING FALSE RUMORS THAT YOU SHOULD LEAVE YOUR HOUSE BECAUSE THAT IS A MEASURE ADOPTED BY THE ARMED FORCES -- WITH THE INTENTION OF EXERTING PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE ON THE POPULATION.
CHILE HAS RESUMED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CZECHOESLOVAKIA AS OF WEDNESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER [AS HEARD].
MR. WALKER, WHEN WILL YOU TELL YOUR PRESIDENT BUSH TO STOP BEING SO RUDE.
COMMENTING ON THE NEW END TO HOSTILITIES PROPOSAL MADE BY THE GUERRILLAS LAST NIGHT, FORMER CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC DEPUTY MINISTER GERARDO LECHEVALIER TODAY SAID HIS PARTY "SUPPORTS ALL EFFORTS" SEEKING TO HALT WAR ACTIONS AND TO SEARCH FOR PEACE IN EL SALVADOR.
GENERAL JUAN RAFAEL BUSTILLO, COMMANDER OF THE SALVADORAN AIR FORCE, TODAY DEFENDED THE MILITARY ACTIONS THAT THE ARMY CARRIED OUT DURING THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONA LIBERATION FRONT] OFFENSIVE.
GENERAL MIGUEL ANTONIO GOMEZ PADILLA, NATIONAL POLICE DIRECTOR, REPORTED TODAY THAT PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, NUMBER ONE IN THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, AND ONE OF THE OCHOA BROTHERS, ALSO A KINGPIN IN THE GROUP, ARE APPARENTLEY SURROUNDED AND SHOULD BE CAPTURED ANY TIME.
PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, HEAD OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, HAS ESCAPED FROM THE COLOMBIAN POLICE TRAP WHICH WAS SET UP 2 DAYS AGO TO CAPTURE HIM, POLICE SOURCES SAID.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI REJECTED THE PROPOSAL SUBMITTED BY THE REBELS ON 22 NOVEMBER FOR AN "IMMEDIATE" CEASE-FIRE WITH THE ARMY UNDER THE UNITED NATIONS SUPERVISION THIS AFTERNOON.
JUST AS WE REPORTED THIS AFTERNOON, FASCIST CRISTIANI AND PONCE, THE VISIBLE HEAD OF LA TANDONA [REFERENCE TO THE 1966 GRADUATING CLASS OF THE CAPTAIN GERARDO BARRIOS MILITARY ACADEMY] HELD A PECULIAR NEWS CONFERENCE WHICH NOT EVEN THE CUSCATLAN RADIO NETWORK EVEN DARED BROADCAST.
HONDURAS TODAY DEMANDED FROM NICARAGUA THE "IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL" OF SANDINIST TROOPS CONCENTRATED ALONG COMMON BORDER AREAS AND WARNED OF ITS INTENTION TO "REPEL ANY ACTION THAT VIOLATES HONDURAS' TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY AND INTEGRITY."
WHENEVER WE HAVE MADE ANY PEACE PROPOSAL, THE CRISTIANI GOVERNMENT ANSWERS BY SAYING IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE PEACE AND THAT OUR PROPOSALS ARE NOT FEASIBLE BECAUSE WE MUST RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION.
MEXICO BITTERLY CONDEMNED FRIDAY THE ASSASSINATION OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS THURSDAY IN EL SALVADOR, SAID A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE SECRETARIAT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS (SRE).
THE MEXICAN SECRETARIAT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS HAS REITERATED THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT'S CONCERN ABOUT THE BLOODSHED AND THE ATMOSPHERE OF VIOLENCE IN EL SALVADOR AND IT HAS URGED THE PARTIES CONCERNED TO RETURN TO THE PATH OF DIALOGUE AND AGREEMENT.
THE INFORMATION AND PRESS DIRECTORATE OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS MINISTRY HEREBY PUBLISHES A NOTE SENT TO NICARAGUAN FOREIGN MINISTER MIGUEL D'ESCOTO BY FOREIGN RELATIONS MINISTER CARLOS LOPEZ CONTRERAS.
THE ABOMINABLE ASSASSINATION OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS AND TWO OTHER PERSONS IN EL SALVADOR DRAMATIZES THE TRAGEDY THAT THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURICIO COLORADO, INVESTIGATING THE MURDER OF THE SIX JESUITS IN EL SALVADOR, SAID TODAY THAT THE DECLARATIONS MADE SO FAR, AMONG THEM THOSE MADE BY LUCIA BARRERA CERNA, ONE OF THE MAIN WITNESSES, "ARE NOT CONCLUSIVE, NOR HAVE THEY SHED ANY LIGHT" ON THE IDENTITY OF THE KILLERS.
AT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD'S ATTENTION IS RIVETED ON THE DEMOCRATIZATION MOVEMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE, WE HEAR A GLOOMY NEWS REPORT THAT THE PROTRACTED CIVIL WAR BETWEEN EL SALVADOR'S GOVERNMENTAL TROOPS RECEIVING U.S. ASSISTANCE AND LEFTIST GUERRILLAS HAS RECENTLY ONCE AGAIN INTENSIFIED, AND HAS TAKEN MANY LIVES.
FOREIGNERS LINKED TO TERRORISTS WILL BE DEPORTED.
"THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] USED TUPAC AMARU, VIETNAMESE, SANDINIST, AND OTHER GUERRILLA WARFARE OFFENSIVE TACTICS IN ITS OFFENSIVE," [COLONEL RENE EMILIO] PONCE, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINTS CHIEFS OF STAFF OF THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES, STATED 23 NOVEMBER.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES TODAY REPORTED THAT A PLANE LOADED WITH WEAPONS FOR GUERRILLAS COMING FROM NICARAGUA CRASHED AT DAWN TODAY IN A TOWN OF USULUTAN DEPARMENT, KILLING THREE CREWMEN WHILE A FOURTH COMMITTED "SUICIDE."
A CESSNA PLANE TRANSPORTING WEAPONS FROM MANAGUA CRASHED TODAY AT 0525 ON A SMALL LANDING STRIP IN PIEDRA PACHA CANTON, EL TRANSITO, 6 KM EAST OF USULUTAN.
IN VIEW OF THE INTENSIFICATION OF THE COUNTRY'S ARMED CONFLICT AND THE ARMED FORCES' ATTITUDE, THE FMLN REPORTS THE FOLLOWING:
SINCE THE EARLY MORNING HOURS, WE HAVE BEEN TRAVELING THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PART OF CORTES DEPARTMENT.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA HAS STATED THAT HE IS "PROUD AND HONORED" OVER SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S DECISION TO SEVER RELATIONS WITH HIS GOVERNMENT, AND DESCRIBED THE SALVADORAN CHIEF EXECUTIVE AS A "MURDERER."
A 2-MONTH-OLD LABOR CONFLICT INVOLVING [WORDS INDISTINCT] WORKERS, WHICH IN THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS CAUSED STREET VIOLENCE IN LIMA, HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MAIN SOURCES OF CONCERN FOR THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT.
A FEW DAYS AFTER THE START OF THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] OFFENSIVE, THE RESULTS ARE COMPLETELY POSITIVE.
AN AVIANCA BOEING 727 WITH 107 PEOPLE ON BOARD TODAY EXPLODED AT 07:18 HOURS (1218 GMT) ABOUT 22 KM SOUTH OF BOGOTA, THE EL DORADO AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER IN BOGOTA CONFIRMED.
POLICE SOURCES HAVE DESCRIBED THE ANNONYMOUS TELEPHONE CALL TO RADIO CADENA CARACOL BLAMING "THE EXTRADITABLES" DRUG TRAFFICKING GROUP FOR THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD AN AVIANCA BOEING 727 AS "LACKING CREDIBILITY."
[CABRERA] THE ALLEGED NICARAGUAN PILOT THAT WAS KILLED IN EL SALVADOR IS ALIVE AND WELL, IN MANAGUA, TALKING WITH US.
EL SALVADOR HAS CARRIED OUT A CONSTANT AND PERMANENT AGGRESSION AGAINST NICARAGUA AND NICARAGUA HAS NEVER SUGGESTED BREAKING RELATIONS WITH EL SALVADOR.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT HAS REJETED THE PROPOSAL FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE THAT THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN], ACCORDING TO MAURICIO SANDOVAL, SALVADORAN MINISTER OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
ACCORDING TO SOME SOURCES, IN THE PAST FEW DAYS MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN EL SALVADOR AFTER THE INTENSIFICATION OF THE FIGHT BETWEEN GOVERNMENT FORCES AND THE GUERRILLAS.
HEAVY CLASHES ARE STILL TAKING PLACE IN NORTHERN SAN SALVADOR FOLLOWING A NIGHT OF FIERCE COMBAT, WHICH CONFIRMS PREDICTIONS ON THE INTENSIFICATION OF THE WAR THIS WEEK.
WE HAVE RECEIVED A REPORT ADVISING US THAT AT 0200 [0800 GMT] TODAY, FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] FORCES ATTACKED A GROUP OF PARATROOPERS AT THE INSA [EXPANSION UNKNOWN] FACTORY IN SOYAPANGO.
THERE IS PROFOUND INDIGNATION OVER THE MURDER OF DR. FRANCISCO JOSE GUERRERO, PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE.
AT LEAST 9 PEOPLE HAVE DIED AND 13 MORE WERE WOUNDED -- INCLUDING SOLDIERS, REBELS, AND CIVILIANS -- IN THE ARMED CONFRONTATIONS DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS IN SAN SALVADOR AND 2 DEPARTMENTS IN THE NORTH AND EAST OF EL SALVADOR, ACCORDING TO MILITARY REPORTS.
IN LIGHT OF THE TERRORIST ARMED AGGRESSION LAUNCHED AGAINST THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE BY THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] WITH THE OPEN SUPPORT AND DIRECTION OF THE SANDINIST GOVERNMENT HEADED BY DANIEL ORTEGA ON 11 NOVEMBER, THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT ADVISES THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT ON THE DAY THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT ASSUMED OFFICE, IT EXPRESSED ITS FIRM DESIRE TO SEEK, THROUGH THE CIVILIZED PATH OF DIALOGUE, A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT BECAUSE THE MARXIST - LENINIST GROUP'S CAUSE BRINGS BLOODSHED TO OUR PEOPLE.
DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER COLONEL JUAN ORLANDO ZEPEDA HAS SAID THAT THE ARMED FORCES STRUCTURE REMAINS INTACT AND THAT THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORISTS HAVE NO POSSIBILITY OF LAUNCHING ANOTHER OFFENSIVE.
WE HAVE LEARNED THAT THE GENERAL STAFF HAS ERECTED A HUMAN WALL, ERECTED BY COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, FOLLOWING THE ARTILLERY ATTACK STAGED BY US AT 0515 THIS MORNING ON THE GENERAL STAFF INSTALLATIONS.
THE FIGHTING IN THE SAN SALVADOR RESIDENTIAL AREAS BRINGS UP SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE FORM AND CONTENT OF THE WAR IN EL SALVADOR WHEN THE FIGHTING TAKES PLACE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE POOR AND WHEN THE FIGHTING TAKES PLACE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE RICH.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY GAVE ASSURANCES TONIGHT THAT THE SITUATION "HAS BEEN CONTROLLED" IN THE VICINITY OF THE ARMED FORCES GENERAL STAFF, WHERE TODAY ONCE AGAIN THE REBELS AND THE MILITARY CLASHED.
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL STATIONED IN SAN MIGUEL HAVE CAPTURED THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST COMMANDER WHO GOES BY THE PSEUDONYM ARISTIDES IN A NEIGHBORHOOD IN THAT TOWN.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI ANNOUNCED LAST SUNDAY THAT THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR HAS BROKEN DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH NICARAGUA.
REGARDING THE INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL THAT THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT HAS MADE OVER AN ALLEGED SHIPMENT OF SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES FOUND INSIDE A WRECKED LIGHT AIRCRAFT, THE FMLN EXPRESSES THE FOLLOWING:
THERE IS A TENSE CALM, INTERRUPTED BY SPORADIC SHOOTING, IN THE EXCLUSIVE ESCALON NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL TODAY.
THE CLANDESTINE AND LIAR RADIO STATIONS OF THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORISTS CONTINUE TO CONDUCT A DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AT AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL WITH THE PURPOSE OF DISTORTING THE TRUTH REGARDING THE AGGRESSION THESE BANDITS HAVE LAUNCHED AGAINST THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
JUDGING BY NEWS AGENCY REPORTS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF EVENTS IN EL SALVADOR HAS REACHED AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS POINT.
FOLLOWING A SOVIET ORDER, DANIEL ORTEGA HAS BEEN FORCED TO EXPELL FROM NICARAGUA THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST LEADERS WHO FOR YEARS HAVE KEPT THEIR GENERAL COMMAND POST IN MANAGUA, WITH ORTEGA'S SUPPORT AND PROTECTION.
IMMIGRATION DIRECTOR COLONEL MAXIMILIANO LEIVA REPORTED TODAY THAT 7 FOREIGNERS HAVE BEEN DEPORTED FROM EL SALVADOR AND 14 WILL HAVE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AFTER BEING DECLARED "PERSONA NON GRATA" FOR ALLEGEDLY COLLABORATING WITH THE GUERRILLAS.
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ REFERRED TODAY TO THE MURDER OF SIX JESUITS AND TWO WOMEN IN SAN SALVADOR AND SAID THAT "THERE IS A GENERALIZED SUSPICION THAT NO ONE CAN HIDE, AND IT IS THAT THE EXTREME RIGHT AND NOT THE EXTREME LEFT COMMITTED THESE MURDERS."
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES STATED THIS EVENING THAT THE GUERRILLA OFFENSIVE "HAS FAILED AND HAS NOT REPRESENTED A MILITARY THREAT" TO THE ARMY FOLLOWING 19 DAYS OF STRONG REBEL ATTACKS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF 10 YEARS OF WAR.
DOMINICAN ORDER SUPERIOR JUAN CARLOS FERNANDEZ CID REPORTED IN MANAGUA TODAY THAT A SPANISH PRIEST AND FOUR WORKERS OF THE DOMINICAN ORDER -- THREE SALVADORANS AND ONE U.S. CITIZEN -- WERE ARRESTED IN SAN SALVADOR ON 30 NOVEMBER.
SALVADORAN ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURICIO EDUARDO COLORADO HAS SAID THAT THE CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES GENERAL STAFF WILL BE SUMMONED TO TESTIFY IN THE CASE OF THE MURDERED JESUIT PRIESTS.
FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] GUERRILLAS FIRED A SAM-7 MISSILE ON 29 NOVEMBER FROM ZACATECOLUCA AND ON 30 NOVEMBER FIRED A SIMILAR MISSILE, ALSO FROM ZACATECOLUCA.
NICARAGUA, WHICH WAS ACCUSED BY EL SALVADOR AT THE [UNITED NATIONS] SECURITY COUNCIL ON 30 NOVEMBER OF WORSENING THE TENSION IN CENTRAL AMERICA, HAS ASKED THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO ISSUE A CALL FOR AN "IMMEDIATE" CEASE-FIRE AND FOR THE RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND THE GUERRILLAS.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TODAY SAID THAT THE SALVADORAN REBELS HAVE FIRED TWO SOVIET - MADE SURFACE - TO - AIR MISSILES SINCE THEY STARTED THEIR OFFENSIVE ON 11 NOVEMBER.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE HAS SAID THAT IN LIGHT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE USE OF MISSILES BY THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT], THE SALVADORAN AIR FORCE IS TAKING PRECAUTIONS AND HAS CHANGED ITS FLIGHT TACTICS OR ADOPTED NEW ONES.
SALVADORAN PEOPLE.
THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS CAPTURED THE ACTUAL PERPETRATORS, AS WELL AS ACCOMPLICES AND HARBORERS, IN THE CASE OF THE ATTACK ON THE ARMED FORCES JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF ON 30 OCTOBER.
FELLOW PATRIOTS, I AM ADDRESSING THE NATION TODAY TO EXPLAIN THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITION CONCERNING THE ISSUE OF EXTRADITION, WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF A VERY INTENSE DEBATE LAST NIGHT AT THE CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES' FIRST COMMISSION.
OSCAR ORAMAS, THE CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, HAS STATED THAT THE ARMS SUPPLIED BY THE UNITED STATES AND THE HUNDREDS OF U.S. ADVISERS SENT TO EL SALVADOR ARE THE CAUSE OF THE TERROR THAT SALVADORANS HAVE HAD TO ENDURE FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS.
CENTRAL AMERICAN BISHOPS ARE "VERY WORRIED" OVER THE SITUATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE IN EL SALVADOR AND PANAMA, "WHO ARE ENDURING A DIFFICULT TRIAL," ACCORDING TO A DOCUMENT ISSUED BY THE EPISCOPAL SECRETARIAT OF CENTRAL AMERICA AND PANAMA (SEDAC).
OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT TROOPS FROM THE THE 6TH INFANTRY BRIGADE AND THE ATONAL BATTALION HAVE ENGAGED IN HEAVY FIGHTING WITH THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST CRIMINALS ON THREE OCCASIONS AS THE LATTER HAVE TRIED TO ENTER THE CITY OF USULUTAN.
THE POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS THAT RESULTED IN JAIME PAZ ZAMORA'S INSTALLATION AS PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC WILL AGAIN TAKE PLACE IN THE NEXT WEEKS TO DECIDE WHO WILL BE INSTALLED AS MAYOR OF LA PAZ.
DELEGATES TO A LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS THAT IS BEING HELD IN LIMA ON MISSING DETAINEES IN LATIN AMERICA TODAY EXPRESSED THEIR "CONCERN" THAT THE LARGEST NUMBER OF DETAINEES AND MISSING PEOPLE ARE TO BE FOUND IN THE COUNTRIES THAT HAVE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS.
THE GUERRILLA ATTACK LAUNCHED ON 11 NOVEMBER HAS INFLICTED 4,834 CASUALTIES ON THE SALVADORAN TROOPS AND GUERRILLAS, ACCORDING TO A REPORT ISSUED TODAY BY THE GOVERNMENT ARMED FORCES.
VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLA FORCES AND THE ARMY TODAY AGAIN SHOOK THE NORTHWEST SECTOR OF SAN SALVADOR, AFTER A FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) COLUMN RAIDED THE TOWN OF SAN ANTONIO ABAD.
IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED IN THE RELIGIOUS MONTHLY MAGAZINE "30 GIORNI" (30 DAYS), SAN SALVADOR ARCHBISHOP ARTURO RIVERA Y DAMAS HAS ONCE AGAIN BLAMED THE SALVADORAN ARMY FOR THE MURDER OF SIX JESUITS FROM THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (UCA).
COLOMBIAN JUDGE BERNARDO JARAMILLO URIBE WAS ASSASSINATED AT NOON TODAY IN MEDELLIN, LOCATED 500 KM NORTHWEST OF BOGOTA, IT WAS REPORTED TODAY BY THE NATIONAL POLICE.
THE PEOPLE'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT POWER HAS BEGUN TO BECOME EFFECTIVE.
JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO TWO VERY STRONG EXPLOSIONS OCCURRED IN THE CENTER OF BOGOTA.
ADMIRAL JOSE TORIBIO MERINO CASTRO TODAY STATED THAT THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT JUNTA HAS DECIDED TO MEET TWICE A WEEK, TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS, IN ORDER TO EXPEDITE THE HANDLING OF DRAFT LAWS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSIDERATION.
COLOMBIA'S ACTING PRESIDENT CARLOS LEMOS HAS SAID THAT THE NARCOTERRORISTS WHO PERPETRATED AN ATTACK IN BOGOTA TODAY THAT LEFT 31 DEAD AND MORE THAN 1,000 INJURED "DESERVE NO MERCY FROM GOD."
ACCORDING TO A REPORT ISSUED BY THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION, DRUG TRAFFICKING IS ONE OF THE MAIN FACTORS IN BOLIVIA PREVENTING A SOCIAL EXPLOSION BECAUSE IT CONTRIBUTES 20 PERCENT OF THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES.
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COMPATRIOTS, AS YOU KNOW, I CAME TO JAPAN TO FULFILL A MISSION IN THIS COUNTRY, WHICH HAS ALWAYS EXPRESSED ITS SOLIDARITY WITH COLOMBIA.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO HAS BROUGHT FORWARD HIS RETURN TO THE COUNTRY BY 10 HOURS, MEANING HE HAS CANCELLED SOME EVENTS HE WAS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND IN TOKYO, AND WILL RETURN TO THE COUNTRY AROUND NOON ON 9 DECEMBER.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS SAID HERE ON THURSDAY HIS GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BOW TO TERRORIST THREATS EXEMPLIFIED BY WEDNESDAY'S BOMB EXPLOSION IN BOGOTA.
ATTENTION, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS.
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ PREDICTED A SERIOUS CRISIS ON THE CONTINENT IF A SOLUTION FOR THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CONFLICT IS NOT FOUND.
INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUE TO DETERMINE WHO PLACED A CAR BOMB IN FRONT OF THE DAS [ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY] FACILITIES.
THE ELECTRIC AND LIGHT COMPANY OF EL SALVADOR, CAESS, HAS REPORTED THAT DUE TO THE TERRORIST SABOTAGE AGAINST THE ELECTRIC SYSTEM, THE COMPANY HAS RATIONED THE ELECTRICITY FOR A 5-HOUR PERIOD IN DIFFERENT ZONES OF THE CAPITAL.
A PUBLIC OPINION POLL CONDUCTED BY THE A.M.S.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF OF THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES, HAS SAID THAT AN ALL-OUT PERSECUTION CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST ASSASSINS HAS BEGUN AND 25 ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES HAVE BEEN CONFISCATED.
IN A DOCUMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT THAT OPENS ON 10 DECEMBER, THE GENERAL COMMAND OF THE GUATEMALAN NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY UNITY (URNG) TODAY CHARGED THAT "GUATEMALA IS EXPERIENCING A GRAVE CRISIS, " AND ADDED THAT "PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO SHOULD NO LONGER CONCEAL IT."
PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TODAY PROPOSED TO THE GUERRILLAS GROUPS THE RENEWAL OF PEACE TALKS IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA, ON 20 DECEMBER -- PROVIDED THE LATTER "CEASE ALL TERRORIST ACTIONS" EFFECTIVE NEXT WEEK.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT TODAY OFFERED $250,000 TO WHOEVER HELPS "DISCOVER THE ASSASSINS" OF THE SIX JESUITS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS AT THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ON 16 NOVEMBER.
HONDURAN PRESIDENT JOSE AZCONA AND GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO ASKED THEIR CENTRAL AMERICAN COLLEAGUES TODAY "TO END THE FOOLISH AND RIDICULOUS WAR THAT WE ARE IN."
WE CONDEMN GUATEMALAN INTERVENTION IN EL SALVADOR.
MSGR ARTURO RIVERA Y DAMAS, ARCHBISHOP OF SAN SALVADOR, STATED TODAY THAT "THE UNITED STATES SAYS THAT IT WANTS TO HELP IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN EL SALVADOR.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE LEFTIST DEMOCRATIC CONVERGENCE [CD] SAID TODAY THAT, IF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GUERRILLAS RESTART TALKS ON 20 DECEMBER, THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL OPPOSITION WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TALKS "SO THAT THE PEOPLE MAY ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO ATTAINING PEACE."
I CAME BECAUSE I WAS TOLD THAT OUR REPORTER FRIENDS WERE GREATLY INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHAT IS HAPPENING.
SALVADORAN DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL RAFAEL LARIOS TODAY REJECTED THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE PROPOSED BY SOME COUNTRIES AT THE PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT AND DEMANDED THAT THE GUERRILLAS END HOSTILITIES AS A PRIOR CONDITION FOR THE DIALOGUE TO BE RESUMED.
THE POLICE REPORTED TODAY THAT MARCO TULIO MONTENEGRO, ONE OF THE THREE TOP LEADERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (AEU) HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD IN GUATEMALA CITY.
MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT, FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW, STRONG BATTLES ARE BEING WAGED IN TONACATEPEQUE, APPROXIMATELY 14 KM NORTHEAST OF SAN SALVADOR.
THE ARMED FORCES PRESS COMMITTEE (COPREFA) HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS SUFFERED 29 CASUALTIES, INCLUDING DEAD AND WOUNDED, DURING CLASHES WITH THE ARMY OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] HAS SEIZED THE TOWN OF TONACATEPEQUE, DESTROYED THE GARRISON, SABOTAGED THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND ANTEL [NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS] INSTALLATIONS, AND FREED CIVILIAN PRISONERS OF THE PARAMILITARY FORCES.
HONDURAS' RADIO AMERICA REPORTED TODAY THAT A SANDINIST HELICOPTER HAS ATTACKED AND SUNK A HONDURAN FISHING BOAT IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
NICARAGUAN INFORMATION MINISTER MANUEL ESPINOZA TODAY EMPHATICALLY DENIED A HONDURAN RADIO STATION'S REPORT THAT A HONDURAN FISHING BOAT WAS ATTACKED BY A SANDINIST ARMY HELICOPTER.
THE MURDER OF THREE JOURNALISTS IN EL SALVADOR YESTERDAY ONCE AGAIN SHOWS THE REPRESSIVE AND CRIMINAL NATURE OF THE SALVADORAN ARMY.
[WHEELOCK] I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRESENCE HERE.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN], WITH REGARD TO THE RESULTS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, REPORTS THE FOLLOWING:
ON RETURNING TODAY FROM THE CENTRAL AMERICAN SUMMIT HELD IN COSTA RICA, SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI SAID THAT "THE TERRORIST ACTIONS OF THE GUERRILLAS ARE NO LONGER JUSTIFIED FROM ANY POINT OF VIEW."
A COLOMBIAN OFFICIAL FROM THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK [IDB] AND A PROSECUTOR FROM THE MEDELLIN HIGHER COURT WERE ASSASSINATED IN THE LAST FEW HOURS NEAR THIS NORTHWESTERN CITY, THE SECOND LARGEST IN COLOMBIA, POLICE SPOKESMEN HAVE REPORTED.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA HAS REPORTED THAT THE SALVADORAN ARMY IS BOMBING THE AREA SURROUNDING A VOLCANO NEAR THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL TONIGHT, "THREATENING THE LIVES AND SECURITY OF SALVADORANS."
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES TODAY DENIED CHARGES BY NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA THAT THE AIR FORCE "LAST NIGHT BOMBED AREAS NEAR SAN SALVADOR VOLCANO, ENDANGERING THE LIVES AND SECURITY" OF CIVIIANS.
BRITISH ENGINEER JOHN MARCK JONES [NAME AS RECEIVED], KIDNAPPED BY THE MARXIST-LENINIST NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY [ELN], RESIDES IN COLOMBIA AND BOTH HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN ARE COLOMBIANS, IT WAS OFICIALLY REPORTED TODAY.
PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO HAS REFERRED TO THE POSSIBILITY OF A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES AND MEMBERS OF THE GUATEMALAN NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY UNITY, URNG, CLEARLY STATING THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF A DIALOGUE WITH THAT ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN DISCUSSED.
[BERNARD] MONTENEGRO, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THE THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] WILL CONTINUE WITH THE CURRENT MILITARY OFFENSIVE THAT BEGAN ON 11 NOVEMBER SINCE THE AGREEMENT AMONG THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WAS SIGNED?
MARIA JULIO HERNANDEZ, DIRECTOR OF THE LEGAL ASSISTANCE OFFICE OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC, IS THE ONE WHO BRAINWASHED THE WITNESS OF THE MURDER OF THE SIX JESUITS AND TWO WOMEN.
U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH WILL GO TO VIOLENCE-TORN COLOMBIA ON FEBRUARY 15 FOR A FOUR-NATION SUMMIT ON ILLEGAL DRUGS, THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED TODAY.
PRESIDENT PINOCHET HAS BRANDED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS AS INTRUDERS.
THE SALVADORAN RULING NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE (ARENA) PARTY TODAY SAID IT REGRETS THE DECISION OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) TO REJECT THE AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN COSTA RICA.
GOOD EVENING.
AFTER AN EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION, THE SALVADORAN ARCHBISHOPRIC LEGAL ASSISTANCE OFFICE ISSUES THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT REGARDING THE MASSACRE OF THE SIX JESUIT PRIESTS:
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT HAS NOT PROPOSED TO THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT RESUMING DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR RELATIONS, PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI EXPLAINED ON 13 DECEMBER AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA HAS CALLED ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO RESPECT THE PEACE AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS.
COLOMBIAN NATIONAL POLICE DIRECTOR HAS ANNOUNCED THAT GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, THE SO-CALLED MILITARY CHIEF OF THE MEDELLIN DRUG CARTEL, BETTER KNOWN AS THE MEXICAN, WAS KILLED TODAY DURING A CONFRONTATION WITH POLICE.
COLOMBIAN NATIONAL POLICE DIRECTOR GENERAL MIGUEL GOMEZ PADILLA HAS REPORTED THAT JOSE GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, THE MEXICAN, AND MILITARY CHIEF OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, DIED TODAY DURING A CONFRONTATION WITH THE NATIONAL POLICE.
THE NATIONAL POLICE, THROUGH GENERAL CARLOS ARTURO CASADIEGO, DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THAT INSTITUTION, INFORMED THE PRESS THIS AFTERNOON THAT THE NATIONAL POLICE HAVE KILLED JOSE GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, A.K.A.
THE COLOMBIAN 19 APRIL MOVEMENT [M-19] HAS ASKED VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT TO SECURE COMPLIANCE WITH THE AGREEMENTS SIGNED BETWEEN THE GUERRILLAS AND THE GOVERNMENT OF COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO.
YESTERDAY, MARIA JULIA HERNANADEZ, DIRECTOR OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC LEGAL ASSITANCE OFFICE, MADE OFFICIAL STATEMENTS BEFORE THE COURT REGARDING THE MURDER OF THE UCA [CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY] PRIESTS.
THE COLOMBIAN SENATE TODAY APPROVED A PARDON LAW THAT AUTHORIZES COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO TO "PARDON" OVER THE NEXT 6 MONTHS THE ARMED GROUPS THAT HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR DESIRE FOR PEACE.
GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, ALIAS THE MEXICAN, ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS WAS KILLED TODAY ALONG WITH HIS SON FREDDY AND A GROUP OF BODYGUARDS AT A FARM PRESUMABLY OWNED BY DRUG TRAFFICKER PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, LOCATED BETWEEN TOLU VAND COBENAS, IN SUCRE DEPARTMENT.
ALL PRIVATE AIRCRAFT AND FLIGHTS IN THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN PLACED UNDER MILITARY CONTROL AND SUBJECT TO STRICT RESTRICTIONS BY THE COLOMBIAN AIR FORCE [FAC].
CHILEAN TERRORISTS MIGHT BE INVOLVED IN THE KIDNAPPING OF IMPORTANT BRAZILIAN BUSINESSMAN.
ACCORDING TO NICARAGUAN INTERIOR MINISTER TOMAS BORGE, PRESIDENT CARLOS MENEM HAS TOLD HIM THAT ARGENTINA WILL ASK THE UNITED STATES TO SUSPEND THE SUPPORT TO THE CONTRAS.
AN ELITE NATIONAL POLICE FORCE, SPECIALLY TRAINED FOR THIS TYPE OF COMMANDO ACTION, CARRIED OUT THE OPERATION IN WHICH GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA WAS KILLED.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES REPORTED TODAY THAT FOUR SOLDIERS AND TWO GUERRILLAS WERE KILLED IN SKIRMISHES IN THE EASTERN USULUTAN DEPARTMENT ON SATURDAY.
THE RELATIVE CALM OF THE PAST FEW DAYS IN SAN SALVADOR WAS INTERRUPTED THIS AFTERNOON WITH STRONG EXPLOSIONS THAT CAN BE HEARD COMING FROM THE NORTHERN SECTOR OF THE CAPITAL CITY.
THE COLOMBIAN COMMUNIST PARTY [PCC] CENTRAL COMMITTEE HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE RECENT ATTACK AGAINST THE INSTALLATIONS OF THE DAS [ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY] AND EXPRESSING SOLIDARITY WITH DAS GENERAL DIRECTOR GENERAL ALFREDO MAZA MARQUEZ.
THIS IS A COMMUNIQUE FROM THE GENERAL COMMAND OF THE FMLN TO ALL SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND TO OUR HEROIC LEADERS AND FIGHTERS:
MANY POLITICAL, UNION, UNIVERSITY, RELIGIOUS, AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN "BEHEADED" BY THE OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS A MONTH AGO, BY THE ARMY'S RESPONSE TO THE OFFENSIVE, AND BY EXTREMIST GROUPS' RETALIATORY ACTIONS.
A FEW MONTHS AGO, IT WAS SPECULATED THAT CHANGES OF COMMAND IN CERTAIN ARMED FORCES KEY POSTS WOULD TAKE PLACE LATE IN 1989.
MEDICAL SPOKESMEN OF THE SANTO TOMAS HOSPITAL HAVE ACCUSED THE U.S. INVADING TROOPS OF PREVENTING AMBULANCES FROM TRANSITING AND PROVIDING MEDICAL ATTENTION TO THE MANY WOUNDED IN STRATEGIC SECTORS OF THE PANAMANIAN CAPITAL.
ECUADOR TODAY CONDEMNED THE U.S. MILITARY FORCES' ACTION IN PANAMA, WHICH IT DESCRIBED AS A "FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL PRINCIPLES," BUT SAID THAT IT WAS GENERAL MANUEL NORIEGA'S "UNDEMOCRATIC STUBBORNNESS THAT CAUSED THE SITUATION TO DETERIORATE TO THIS POINT."
THE PANAMANIAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRS IN OUR COUNTRY, JAIME CERDA, DID NOT [AS HEARD] MAKE AN URGENT CALL TO ALL LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLE TO REPUDIATE THE U.S. INTERVENTION IN HIS COUNTRY.
MILITARY AND CIVILIAN SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN REBELS AND SOLDIERS BROKE OUT THIS EVENING IN CIUDAD MERLIOT, AN AREA WEST OF SAN SALVADOR.
A PERUVIAN DIPLOMATIC SOURCE HAS CONFIRMED THAT EMILIO TORRES, AIDE TO THE PERUVIAN MILITARY ATTACHE IN PANAMA, WAS WOUNDED TODAY DURING A SHOOTOUT AMONG CIVILIANS NEAR HIS HOME.
OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT JORGE ADOLFO VARGAS, SECOND SECRETARY AT THE NICARAGUAN EMBASSY IN GUATEMALA, WAS SHOT TO DEATH TODAY IN GUATEMALA CITY BY SEVERAL UNIDENTIFIED MEN.
THE MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PATRIOTIC FRONT (FPMR), THE LARGEST CLANDESTINE LEFTIST GUERRILLA GROUP IN CHILE, ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT IT WILL ATTACK "ANY U.S. OBJECTIVE IN CHILE" IN VIEW OF THE U.S. INVASION OF PANAMA.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHIEF OF THE SALVADORAN JOINT STAFF, HAS STATED THAT THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] DOES NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE TO LAUNCH A NEW OFFENSIVE BECAUSE THE RANK-AND-FILE OF THIS ORGANIZATION ARE TOTALLY DEMORALIZED DUE TO THE HEAVY CASUALTIES THAT THEY HAVE TAKEN.
THREE MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE BRIGADES [BRIGADAS DE PAZ INTERNACIONALES] ASSIGNED TO GUATEMALA WERE ATTACKED YESTERDAY BY ALLEGED CRIMINALS WHO STABBED THEM NEAR THE THEIR BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS ON MARISCAL STREET IN THIS CAPITAL.
PERUVIAN AMBASSADOR IN PANAMA MARIO CASTRO ARENAS TODAY ASKED THE PERUVIAN PRESIDENT TO SEND MILITARY PLANES TO PANAMA TO EVACUATE PERUVIAN CITIZENS WHO ARE IN DANGER.
THE REVOLUTIONARY NATIONAL MOVEMENT PARTY HAS CONDEMNED THE U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN PANAMA AND SAID THAT THE NORTHERN POWER DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO VIOLATE THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-DETERMINATION.
FROM 10 TO 12 DECEMBER, PRESIDENTS OF FIVE CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES HELD A SPECIAL MEETING TO MEDIATE BETWEEN THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT AND GUERRILLAS.
GUATEMALAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO TODAY CALLED THE GUATEMALAN PEOPLE TO "THINK" DURING CHRISTMAS ABOUT THE PANAMANIAN, SALVADORAN, AND ROMANIAN PEOPLE, WHO ARE EXPERIENCING A "DIFFICULT" SITUATION.
ECUADORAN EMBASSY SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT 55 ECUADOREANS, INCLUDING ECUADORAN AGRICULTURE MINISTER MARIO JALIL, WERE EVACUATED LAST NIGHT FROM PANAMA IN AN AIRPLANE FROM THEIR COUNTRY.
THE ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES TODAY "STRONGLY REPUDIATED" THE U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN PANAMA BY APPROVING A DECLARATION SPONSORED BY THE JUSTICIALIST PARTY (PJ) AND THE RADICAL CIVIC UNION (UCR) BLOCS.
A BOMB EXPLODED IN THE BATHROOM OF THE CHILEAN-U.S.
FATHER JOSE MARIA TOJEIRA S.J.
THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DIRECTORATE OF THE PRESIDENCY ANNOUNCES TO THE NICARAGUAN PEOPLE AND TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT ACCORDING TO PRELIMINARY REPORTS, ON 1 JANUARY AT 1930, A GROUP OF COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY MERCENARIES, FINANCED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, AMBUSHED MEMBERS OF A RELIGIOUS GROUP HEADED BY MSGR PABLO SMITH, BISHOP OF THE BLUEFIELDS APOSTOLIC VICARIATE, IN A PLACE KNOWN AS OJO DE AGUA, LOCATED BETWEEN ARANCHAMBA AND COPERNA, NORTHERN ATLANTIC REGION, RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF NUNS MAUREEN CONNALY, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, AND TERESA ROSALES MISQUITA.
THE BLOW DEALT TO THE LATIN AMERICAN CONSCIENCE BY THE U.S. INTERVENTION IN PANAMA IS ABOUT TO DEFLATE THE OPTIMISTIC HOPES FOR A JOINT STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DRUG TRADE.
A LOCAL RADIO STATION REPORTED TODAY THAT A GROUP OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE SALVADORAN ARMY, WERE ARRESTED IN THE LAST FEW HOURS BECAUSE OF THEIR SUSPECTED INVOLVEMENT IN THE ASSASSINATION OF SIX SPANISH JESUITS ON 16 NOVEMBER.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHIEF OF THE SALVADOAN ARMED FORCES' GENERAL STAFF, HAS ADMITTED THAT 2 OFFICERS AND 45 SOLDIERS OF AN ELITE BATTALION ARE "BEING HELD IN VARIOUS GUARRISONS OF SAN SALVADOR" WHILE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE KILLING OF THE SIX JESUITS CONTINUE.
HERE IN MADRID, THE LEFT-WING LEADER OF THE SALVADORAN OPPOSITION, RUBEN ZAMORA, HAD A MEETING JUST A FEW MINUTES' AGO WITH FOREIGN MINISTER FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ ORDONEZ, BEFORE STARTING A EUROPEAN TOUR SEEKING AID TO OVERCOME THE CRISIS FACING THE CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY.
SOME 150 PEOPLE THREW STONES AT THE PERUVIAN EMBASSY IN PANAMA CITY TODAY TO PROTEST THE PRESENCE AT THE EMBASSY OF 12 REFUGEES CLOSELY LINKED TO FORMER GENERAL MANUEL ANTONIO NORIEGA.
A MILITARY SOURCE, QUOTING INTELLIGENCE SOURCES, SAID TODAY THAT THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS HAVE ABANDONED THEIR STRICTLY MILITARY GOALS TO INSTEAD DIRECT THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST ECONOMIC TARGETS, WITHIN THEIR USUAL PATTERN OF WEARING DOWN THE ECONOMY.
SOME 150 PERSONS PICKETED AND THREW STONES AT THE PERUVIAN EMBASSY ON 12 JANUARY.
COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT MINISTER CARLOS LEMOS SIMMONDS SAID ON 12 JANUARY THAT AS LONG AS THE GUERRILLA GROUPS CONTINUE TO RESPOND TO THE GOVERNMENT'S PEACE EFFORTS WITH MILITARY ACTIONS, THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE WILL ALSO HAVE TO RESPOND MILITARILY.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TODAY CHARGED THAT COLONEL GUILLERMO BENAVIDES, DIRECTOR OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY, TWO LIEUTENANTS, TWO SECOND LIEUTENANTS, TWO SUBSERGEANTS, ONE CORPORAL, AND TWO SOLDIERS OF THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES ARE IMPLICATED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF THE JESUITS.
COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS TODAY URGED GUATEMALA PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI AND ORDER AN "EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER OF SALVADORAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEADER HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES IN GUATEMALA 2 DAYS AGO.
THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT HAS OFFERED FULL GUARANTEES OF DUE PROCESS [GARANTIAS PROCESALES] TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS WHO LAY DOWN THEIR WEAPONS AND STOP THEIR TERRORIST ACTIVITIES AND SMUGGLING OF DRUGS TO OTHER COUNTRIES, BUT SAID IT WILL NOT ENTER INTO DEALS WITH THEM THAT MAY VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION OR THE LAWS.
A FIERCE CLASH, WHICH LASTED ALMOST 1 HOUR, OCCURRED THIS EVENING BETWEEN GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS AND GUERRILLA FORCES IN A WESTERN SECTOR OF THE CAPITAL, BUT NO CASUALTIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
DIPLOMATIC SOURCES HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT LUIS SANDIGA, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES AT THE PERUVIAN EMBASSY IN PANAMA, LEFT FOR LIMA TODAY FOLLOWING HIS EXPULSION YESTERDAY BY THE PANAMANIAN GOVERNMENT.
ON LEARNING OF THE EXTRADITABLES' STATEMENT CONCERNING THE RELEASE OF KIDNAPPED PERSONS AND THE SUSPENSION OF DRUG- TRAFFICKING ACTIVITIES, GOVERNMENT MINISTER CARLOS LEMOS SIMMONDS, EXPRESSING HIS SATISFACTION, SAID TODAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS WON THE WAR AGAINST DRUG-TRAFFICKING WITHOUT ENGAGING IN ANY NEGOTIATIONS.
AFTER LISTENING TO REPORTS SUBMITTED BY THE INTERIOR AND FOREIGN MINISTERS, THE BOLIVIAN SENATE TODAY APPROVED THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO EXTRADITE COLONEL LUIS ARCE GOMEZ TO THE UNITED STATES, WHERE HE FACES CHARGES OF DRUG TRAFFICKING.
CARIBBEAN RIGHTS, WHICH GROUPS SEVEN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS IN THE REGION, ON THURSDAY JOINED AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IN A CAMPAIGN DENOUNCING WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS THE "INHUMANE AND VIOLENT CONDITIONS" PERPETRATED BY THE PERUVIAN ARMED FORCES.
[BRAVO] WE ALREADY HAVE AUDIO AND VIDEO SIGNALS WITH LIMA AND LA PAZ.
TODAY, A SALVADORAN JUDGE ORDERED THE "PROVISIONAL ARREST" OF ONE SALVADORAN COLONEL AND EIGHT OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SALVADORAN ARMY INVOLVED IN THE MASSACRE OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS CARRIED OUT IN SAN SALVADOR ON 16 NOVEMBER.
IN RESPONSE TO REPORTS DISSEMINATED BY THE MEDIA WITH REGARD TO THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING AND TERRORISM, THE COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT ADVISES THE COLOMBIA PEOPLE OF THE FOLLOWING:
UPON PROCLAIMING ITS VICTORY OVER THE DRUG TRAFFICKING MAFIAS, WHICH HAVE ADMITTED THEIR DEFEAT, COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO'S GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO ENFORCE THE LAW AND THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING ALL CRIMINALS BEFORE JUSTICE.
A CALL FOR FREE ELECTIONS IN PANAMA, SUPPORT FOR PUERTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE, AND THE CONDEMNATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN GUATEMALA AND EL SALVADOR WERE SOME OF THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED AT THE END OF THE MEETING OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL [IS] COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN THIS AFTERNOON IN QUITO.
SALVADORAN COLONEL GUILLERMO BENAVIDES GAVE THE ORDER TO ASSASSINATE SIX JESUIT PRIESTS WITH A PEREMPTORY SENTENCE: "EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE; IT IS EITHER US OR THEM.
IT WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED TODAY IN LIMA THAT PERUVIAN SECURITY FORCES KILLED 14 TERRORISTS IN CONFRONTATIONS THAT OCCURRED ON 20 JANUARY IN SEVERAL POINTS OF THE COUNTRY.
ATTENTION: THE MEDELLIN POLICE ARE CONFIRMING AT THIS TIME WHETHER IT IS TRUE THAT ALVARO DIEGO MONTOYA ESCOBAR, WHO IS THE SON OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PRESIDENCY, HAS BEEN RELEASED NEAR THE CAMPOS DE PAZ CEMETARY OF THE CAPITAL OF ANTIOQUIA.
FROM THE SOVIET POINT OF VIEW, THE QUESTION OF DELIVERIES OF WEAPONS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TAKES ON, IN PRESENT CONDITIONS, A PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE.
MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT THERE WAS AN ATTACK THIS MORNING AGAINST THE HOME OF RETIRED COLONEL CARLOS HUMBERTO FIGUEROA, DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER, BUT THAT THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES.
AN UNUSUAL COMMUNIQUE SIGNED BY PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA WAS DELIVERED TO EL TIEMPO NEWSPAPER DIRECTOR HERNANDO SANTOS CASTILLO.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES GENERAL STAFF, TODAY DISCLOSED AN ALLEGED PLAN ACCORDING TO WHICH THE GUERRILLAS WILL ATTEMPT TO ATTACK MILITARY POSITIONS IN SAN SALVADOR "TO PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT INTO NEGOTIATING A POLITICAL SOLUTION" TO THE ARMED CONFLICT.
ACCORDING TO ESTIMATES BY THE U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (DEA), THE VOLUME OF BUSINESS GENERATED BY THE COCAINE CULTIVATED AND PRODUCED BY PERUVIAN, BOLIVIAN, AND COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS WHEN IT IS PEDDLED ON THE STREETS OF THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE IS $140 BILLION ANNUALLY.
COLOMBIAN AND VENEZUELAN AUTHORITIES ARE FACED WITH A SERIOUS ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY TONIGHT FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSION OF A POWERFUL BOMB PLACED BY GUERRILLAS AT THE MAIN OIL PIPELINE IN COLOMBIA, CAUSING MORE THAN 15,000 BARRELS OF OIL TO SPILL AND REACH THE CATATUMBO RIVER ALONG THE BORDER BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
SALVADORAN VICE PRESIDENT FRANCISCO MERINO LOPEZ HAS SAID THAT "THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] DOES NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REPEAT A TERRORIST ATTACK LIKE THE ONE LAUNCHED ON 11 NOVEMBER BECAUSE IT DOES NOT HAVE THE LOGISTICAL OR OTHER NECESSARY SUPPORT AT THIS TIME, NOR WILL IT HAVE SUCH SUPPORT IN THE MONTHS TO COME."
ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON, LIFETIME PRESIDENT OF ARENA [NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE], HAS SAID THAT THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER ARRESTS OR DETENTIONS OF SOLDIERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE JESUIT MURDER CASE.
TODAY, 2 DAYS BEFORE HIS MEETING WITH UN SECRETARY GENERAL JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR, PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI REAFFIRMED HIS WILLINGNESS TO HOLD TALKS WITH THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN].
COLONEL MAURICIO ERNESTO VARGAS TODAY HAS SAID THERE IS NO NEED OR REASON FOR THE UNITED STATES TO SUSPEND AID TO THE COUNTRY.
ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON THE POLICE IN WASHINGTON ARRESTED THE LEADERS OF A GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS WHO HAD GATHERED IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL TO DEMAND THE SUSPENSION OF MILITARY AID TO EL SALVADOR.
[ORTEGA] IN A REPORT FOR TELEVISION YESTERDAY YOU POINTED OUT THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF THE GUERRILLAS IN COLOMBIA.
COLOMBIAN DRUG MAFIAS HAVE DENIED THAT THEY ARE PREPARING AN ATTACK ON THE LIFE OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, WHO WILL VISIT THIS CARIBBEAN COLONIAL BEACH RESORT ON 15 FEBRUARY FOR AN ANTI-DRUG SUMMIT MEETING.
IN THEIR INITIAL PEACE PROPOSAL, THE EXTRADITABLES PROMISED THE SUSPENSION OF SHIPMENTS OF COCAINE TO THE UNITED STATES, THE SURRENDER OF WEAPONS, AND THE RELEASE OF PEOPLE THEY HAVE KIDNAPPED.
THE NATIONAL POLICE ANNOUNCED ON 20 JANUARY THAT IT HAS ABUNDANT EVIDENCE OF THE GUILT OF U.S. CITIZEN JENNIFER JEAN CASOLO, WHO WAS ARRESTED ON 24 NOVEMBER IN HER HOME IN THE MIRALVALLE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THIS CAPITAL, WHERE A LARGE NUMBER OF WEAPONS AND A GREAT QUANTITY OF DOCUMENTS BELONGING TO THE FMLN-FDR [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT - REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT] WERE FOUND BURIED IN THE YARD.
THE POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT TOMAS EVANGELISTA, A LEADER OF THE RULING AMERICAN POPULAR REVOLUTIONARY ALLIANCE (APRA) AND DIRECTOR OF THE AYACUCHO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, WAS SHOT DEAD BY TERRORISTS HERE TODAY.
PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO SAID TODAY THAT "THERE WILL BE NO INCREASE IN FUEL PRICES," THUS CONFIRMING THE STATEMENT GIVEN YESTERDAY, 21 JANUARY, BY ENERGY AND MINES MINISTER RAUL CASTANEDA.
AT THIS TIME, THERE IS HEAVY FIGHTING AND EVEN ARMY BOMBING OF FARC [REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA] CAMPS NEAR URIBE IN META DEPARTMENT.
THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS TODAY REAFFIRMED THEIR WILLINGNESS TO MEET WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL TO AGREE ON A DATE TO RESUME THE DIALOGUE AND THEY PROPOSED A CEASE-FIRE IN EXCHANGE FOR A SUSPENSION OF U.S. AID.
[ALFREDO VILLAREAL] COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHAIRMAN OF THE ARMED FORCES' JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, TODAY POINTED OUT THAT THE COUNTRY'S SITUATION DOES NOT WARRANT LIFTING THE CURRENT STATE OF SIEGE.
COL GUILLERMO ALFREDO BENAVIDES, PRIMARY PERSON IMPLICATED IN THE MURDER OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS AND THEIR TWO EMPLOYEES, WAS OFFICIALLY REMOVED TODAY FROM HIS POST AS DIRECTOR OF THE SALVADORAN ARMY MILITARY SCHOOL.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] HEREBY NOTIFIES THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF THE FOLLOWING:
SOME PEOPLE NAIVELY THINK THAT A COUNTRY CURRY FAVOR WITH THE U.S. JUST BY BEING DEMOCRATIC.
PRESIDENT RAFAEL LEONARDO CALLEJAS ROMERO SAID TUESDAY HONDURAS IS FACING AN EXTREMELY CHALLENGING SITUATION AND THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA CAN HELP A GREAT DEAL IN SOLVING THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING HIS COUNTRY.
THIS MORNING PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO HOSTED A NEWS CONFERENCE AT THE PRESIDENT'S PALACE OFFICE.
A SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL MISSION, MADE UP OF PROMINENT LEADERS OF THAT ORGANIZATION, ARRIVED IN THE COUNTRY ON 23 JANUARY TO "DEMAND" THAT THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT CONDUCT AN EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER OF SALVADORAN OPPOSITION LEADER HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES AND GUATEMALAN GILDA FLORES.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, CATEGORICALLY DENIED TODAY THAT THERE ARE ANY RIFTS BETWEEN SALVADORAN ARMY OFFICERS AND U.S. MILITARY ADVISERS, AS ASSERTED THIS WEEK BY THE U.S. MEDIA.
DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS, THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR CONTINUISM, DANIEL ORTEGA, HAS BEEN INSISTING ON HIS INTENTION OF A QUICK RECONCILIATION WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
PRESIDENT AUGUSTO PINOCHET SAID HERE THAT THIS IS THE LAST CITY HE WILL VISIT DURING THE FIRST PART OF HIS NATIONWIDE TOUR TO BID TAKE LEAVE OF THE CITIZENRY AS CHIEF OF STATE.
COL. RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHIEF OF THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES GENERAL STAFF, SAID TODAY THAT 145 GUERRILLAS AND 53 SOLDIERS HAD BEEN KILLED IN 386 CLASHES IN JANUARY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATION "VICTORIA."
COLOMBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER JULIO LONDONO PAREDES SAID TODAY THAT IT IS VERY HARD TO THINK OF SOME IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGH IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS "WHEN AT THE SAME TIME THE INTERNATIONAL COFFEE AGREEMENT COLLAPSES AND TARIFFS AND OBSTACLES ARE RAISED AGAINST OUR NATIONS' EXPORT PRODUCTS."
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS SAID HE WILL ASK U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH -- DURING THE 15 FEBRUARY DRUG SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN CARTAGENA -- FOR GREATER ASSISTANCE TO BOLIVIA AND PERU, THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PRODUCERS OF COCA LEAVES.
THE DIRECTOR OF A SALVADORAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP HAS SAID THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE DOES NOT HELP ATTAIN PROGRESS IN HUMAN RIGHTS IN EL SALVADOR "BECAUSE THE ARMY IS BEING BLACKMAILED WITH MILITARY AID."
TODAY, 11 FEBRUARY, AT 0900, THE SALVADORAN AIR FORCE BEGAN BOMBING AND FIRING ROCKETS AGAINST A SETTLEMENT OF REPATRIATES IN HUANCORA, SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR JURISDICTION, CHALATENANGO DEPARTMENT, WITH TWO A-37 PLANES AND FOUR HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS, KILLING SIX PERSONS, WOUNDING THREE OTHERS, AND DESTROYING SEVERAL HOMES.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES DENIED TODAY THAT THEIR PLANES HAD BOMBED A REFUGEE CAMP AND CIVILIAN SETTLEMENTS IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF CHALATENANGO AND MORAZAN, LOCATED NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF SAN SALVADOR, AS RELIGIOUS SOURCES HAD REPORTED YESTERDAY.
THE NATIONAL POLICE'S DIJIN [DIRECTORATE OF JUDICIAL POLICE AND INVESTIGATIONS] HAS REVEALED A TERRORIST PLAN THAT THE NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY, ELN, WAS PLANNING TO CARRY OUT IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN COLOMBIA IN MARCH, AND ADDED THAT THIS SUBVERSIVE GROUP IS DIVIDED BY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ITS LEADERS.
THE SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT HAS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED ITS REGRET OVER THE DEATH OF SEVERAL CHILDREN AND CIVILIANS IN THE GUANCORITA CANTON, CHALANTENGO DEPARTMENT, ON 11 FEBRUARY, AND HAS ORDERED AN INVESTIGATION TO CLARIFY THE CASE, WHICH IS BEING BLAMED ON THE AIR FORCE.
ONE OF THE U.S. CITIZENS WHO WAS KIDNAPPED IN MEDELLIN TODAY, PRESUMABLY BY GUERRILLAS OF THE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION [ELN], WAS RELEASED A FEW HOURS AFTER BEING TAKEN HOSTAGE.
ONE OF THE TWO U.S. CITIZENS WHO WAS KIDNAPPED IN THE PAST FEW HOURS IN THE CAPITAL OF ANTIOQUIA HAS BEEN RELEASED BY THE ELN [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION] GUERRILLAS.
AT APPROXIMATELY 1915 [2115 GMT] TODAY, A BOMB WENT OFF AT THE GATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHILE ON BERNARDO O'HIGGINS AVENUE BETWEEN SAN DIEGO AND ARTURO PRATTS STREETS.
THREE POLICEMEN WERE KILLED AND ONE WAS WOUNDED TODAY IN AN AMBUSH SET BY GUERRILLAS OF THE MAOIST POPULAR LIBERATION ARMY (EPL) IN THE NORTHWESTERN MUNICIPALITY OF ARBOLETES, IT WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED IN BOGOTA.
GENERAL MIGUEL MAZA MARQUEZ, DIRECTOR OF THE COLOMBIAN SECRET POLICE, TODAY SAID IN CARTAGENA DE INDIAS THAT HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THE "EXTRADITABLES," A GROUP THAT REPRESENTS THE LARGEST GROUP OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN THE COUNTRY, ARE WILLING, AS THEY HAVE CLAIMED, TO ACHIEVE PEACE.
THE PRO-CASTRIST UNION CAMILISTA - ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (UC-ELN), THE MOST BELLIGERENT IN COLOMBIA, TODAY REPUDIATED U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH'S VISIT IN THE COUNTRY AND WARNED THAT "WE WILL BE IN CARTAGENA."
U.S. PRIEST FRANCISCO AMICO WAS KIDNAPPED TODAY IN THE CITY OF CALI BY AN UNIDENTIFIED GROUP.
BRITAIN AND ARGENTINA TONIGHT AGREED TO RESUME FULL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WHICH WERE BROKEN OFF IN 1982 AFTER THE INVASION OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.
THE SANTA CRUZ PREPARATORY MEETING WAS HELD UNDER STRICT SECURITY MEASURES AND ITS CONCLUSIONS HAVE BEEN KEPT UNDER STRICT SECRECY.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS HAS SAID THAT HE WILL NOT HOLD TALKS WITH NARCO-TERRORISTS BECAUSE COLOMBIAN LAW IS NOT NEGOTIABLE.
MILITARY AND CIVILIAN SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT EARLY THIS MORNING THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT, FMLN, SET ON FIRE TWO COTTON PROCESSING PLANTS IN SAN MIGUEL, SOME 142 KM EAST OF SAN SALVADOR, CAUSING GREAT PROPERTY DAMAGE, ACCORDING TO MILITARY AND CIVILIAN SOURCES.
A MILITARY SOURCE HAS REPORTED THAT THE SALVADORAN AIR FORCE BOMBED GUERRILLA POSITIONS ALONG THE SIDE OF SAN SALVADOR VOLCANO, APPROXIMATELY FOUR KM FROM SAN SALVADOR, THIS AFTERNOON.
TERRORIST ACTIONS AGAINST SAN SALVADOR'S COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS CONTINUE, CREATING ALARM AND CONCERN AMONG PRIVATE ENTERPRISE GROUPS.
DEFENSE MINISTER GEN. HECTOR ALEJANDRO GRAMAJO SPOKE ON 7 FEBRUARY AT A NEWS CONFERENCE JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER LEARNING OF A NEW GUERRILLA ATTACK THAT TOOK PLACE AT DAYBREAK ON 7 FEBRUARY, AGAINST THE TECPAN, CHIMALTENANGO POLICE GARRISON.
THE MEDIA TODAY RECEIVED AN URGENT MESSAGE WHICH WAS SIGNED BY MARTA OSPINA JARAMILLO, I.D.
OFFICIAL SPOKESMEN REPORTED HERE TODAY THAT THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT AND M-19 [19 APRIL MOVEMENT] WILL SIGN A FINAL PEACE AGREEMENT ON 19 FEBRUARY.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI TODAY SAID THE GOVERNMENT IS AWAITING A REPLY FROM THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) REGARDING A POSSIBLE RESUMPTION OF THE DIALOGUE.
THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA'S (FARC) GENERAL STAFF STATED THAT ALL THE COLOMBIAN GUERRILLA MOVEMENTS AGREE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOULD SERVE AS MEDIATOR IN A BROAD PEACE PROCESS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GUERRILLAS.
SAN SALVADOR ARCHBISHOP ARTURO RIVERA Y DAMAS DEPLORED YESTERDAY THE ECONOMIC MEASURES THAT THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED RECENTLY "BECAUSE THEY WILL AFFECT POOR SECTORS ONLY," AND INSISTED ON THE NEED TO END THE WAR.
THE CALI POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT U.S. PRIEST FRANCISCO ANTONIO AMICO FERRARI, WHO HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED BY AN ELN [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION] CELL, WAS RELEASED IN NORTHERN CALI ON 19 FEBRUARY.
AS A RESULT OF AN OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY ELN [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION], EPL [POPULAR LIBERATION ARMY], AND FARC [REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA] REBELS, FIVE PEASANTS AND FOUR GUERRILLAS HAVE DIED, FIVE POLICEMEN HAVE BEEN WOUNDED, AND PROPERTY LOSSES IN THE MILLIONS HAVE OCCURRED.
ON THE EVENING OF 20 MAY 1986, THE JENKA, A DANISH CARGO SHIP WITH AN EMPTY HOLD, WAS ANCHORED IN VALPARAISO BAY.
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO COLOMBIA THOMAS MCNAMARA HAS BEEN DECLARED A PRIORITY "MILITARY TARGET" OF THE MARXIST ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) GUERRILLA GROUP, THE ELN ANNOUNCED TODAY IN A COMMUNIQUE SENT TO EFE IN BOGOTA.
IN THE PAST FEW HOURS, THE SO-CALLED CAMILIST UNION ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (UC-ELN) MURDERED A POLICE INSPECTOR AND TWO OF HIS BROTHERS, WHO WERE PEASANTS.
CONTRA COMMANDER ISRAEL GALEANO, ALIAS FRANKLIN, HAS TOLD TIEMPO THAT THE ANTI-SANDINIST REBELS WILL STAY ARMED, REGARDLESS OF THE RESULTS OF THE 25 FEBRUARY ELECTIONS IN NICARAGUA, TO MAKE SURE THE DEMOCRATIC CHANGES TAKE PLACE.
THE ANNALS OF THE COLOMBIAN PORT OF CARTAGENA LIST THREE EXTREMELY FIERCE SIEGES.
THE NICARAGUAN CONTRAS CHARGED IN TEGUCIGALPA TODAY THAT ON 19 FEBRUARY THE SANDINIST AIR FORCE USED AIRPLANES AND HELICOPTERS TO BOMB SEVERAL COMMUNITIES IN ZELAYA, MATAGALPA, AND JINOTEGA DEPARTMENTS, IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NICARAGUA.
A RELIABLE SOURCE TODAY DISCLOSED THAT THE DEPLOYMENT OF CHILEAN ARMED FORCES TO SOUTHERN CHILE, INCLUDING ARMORED UNITS, AND THE IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY OF THE WEAPONS OF THE CHILEAN ARMED FORCES ARE CAUSING CONCERN IN THE DEFENSE AREA.
TWO ARMY MEMBERS WERE KILLED AND FIVE WERE WOUNDED DURING THE HEAVY CLASHES THAT TOOK PLACE SIMULTANEOUSLY IN VARIOUS PLACES IN THE CAPITAL TONIGHT, MILITARY SOURCES REPORTED.
THE RECENT CEASE-FIRE OFFER BY THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA (FARC) WAS ACCEPTED TODAY BY THE SO-CALLED COMMISSION OF NOTABLES, WHOSE MEMBERS ARE FIVE FORMER PRESIDENTS, AND CHURCH AND BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES.
TWO U.S. CITIZENS, WHO HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED BY GUERRILLAS ON 12 FEBRUARY IN ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT IN NORTHWESTERN COLOMBIA, WERE RELEASED TODAY.
[ROSA CHAVEZ] WE BELIEVE THAT THE ELECTIONS IN NICARAGUA WILL MARK A NEW PHASE IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN SITUATION.
SEVERAL COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULES, LIBERALS ERNESTO SAMPER PIZANO AND HERNANDO DURAN AND CONSERVATIVE RODRIGO LLOREDA CAICEDO, EXPRESSED THEIR WILLINGNESS TODAY TO HOLD A DIALOGUE WITH THE EXTRADITABLES, THE ARMED WING OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, AFTER THE EXTRADITABLES VOICED THEIR DESIRE FOR SUCH TALKS.
IT WAS REPORTED TODAY IN AYACUCHO THAT AT LEAST 16 MEMBERS OF THE "PEASANT DEFENSE PATROL" (THE CIVILIAN MILITIA THAT FIGHTS SUBVERSION) DIED AND ANOTHER 30 WERE WOUNDED DURING AN ATTACK BY A "SHINING PATH" COLUMN.
COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT MINISTER CARLOS LEMOS HAS HINTED THAT IT MAY HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE MARXIST GUERRILLA GROUP ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION [ELN] WHO HAVE MURDERED THE 77 FOLLOWERS OF THE LEFT-WING PARTY THE PATRIOTIC UNION [UP].
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO HAS ACCUSED U.S. AMBASSADOR THOMAS STROOK OF INTERFERING IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THIS CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY.
DEAR TELEVISION AUDIENCE, WE BRIEFLY INTERRUPT OUR REGULAR PROGRAMMING TO OFFER YOU A REPORT OF GENERAL INTEREST.
THE AUTHORITIES AND SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN SURPRISED BY THE SHOCKING WAVE OF KIDNAPPINGS CARRIED OUT THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY BY THE SELF-STYLED ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION, ELN.
ONE MILITARY HELICOPTER WAS SHOT DOWN TODAY WHILE ANOTHER ONE WAS DAMAGED IN QUEBRANDA HONDA NEAR CHALATENANGO CITY.
ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED AND SIX MORE PERSONS WERE INJURED, INCLUDING THREE NEWSMEN, IN AN ATTACK AGAINST A HELICOPTER IN WHICH ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURICIO COLORADO WAS ONE OF THE PASSENGERS, OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE NOTED, ADDING THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WAS UNHURT.
MILITARY SOURCES REPORTED TODAY THAT FIGHTING BROKE OUT ON THE NIGHT OF 5 MARCH IN THE WAR-TORN CHALATENANGO DEPARTMENT TO THE NORTH OF SAN SALVADOR, WHERE THE GUERRILLAS SUFFERED EIGHT CASUALTIES.
NOW, JUST LIKE 13 YEARS AGO WHEN A DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION WAS INSTALLED IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GUATEMALA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE PARTICULARLY TENSE, AND TODAY, JUST LIKE THEN, THE REASON FOR THE TENSION IN THEIR BILATERAL RELATIONS IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION, BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION OF GEORGE BUSH, THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT OF VINICIO CEREZO DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE ENOUGH POLITICAL WILL TO NEUTRALIZE THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE AFFECTING THE SECURITY OF CITIZENS AND INDIVIDUAL GUARANTEES.
CHILEAN PRESIDENT-ELECT PATRICIO AYLWIN TODAY CONDITIONED THE REESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CUBA TO THAT COUNTRY'S SUSPENSION OF ITS MILITARY, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SUPPORT TO CHILE'S MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PATRIOTIC FRONT (FPMR) TERRORIST GROUP.
THE 19 APRIL MOVEMENT (M-19), ONE OF THE MAIN COLOMBIAN GUERRILLA ORGANIZATIONS, DELIVERED THEIR WEAPONS TODAY TO A SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL (IS) SPECIAL COMMISSION AT THE M-19 CAMP LOCATED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWESTERN COLOMBIA.
HERE IS AN EXCERPT OF WHAT AN OFFICIAL REPORT BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIONALIST REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE, ARENA, REGARD AS A COMPLETELY RECKLESS PUBLICATION AND WITHOUT ANY CREDIBILITY.
GOOD EVENING, LISTENERS.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI HAS ACCUSED THE GUERRILLAS OF MAINTAINING "INFLEXIBLE STANDS" REGARDING RESUMING THE DIALOGUE THAT WILL ALLOW ENDING THE 10-YEAR-OLD ARMED CONFLICT.
IT HAS JUST BEEN REPORTED TO US THAT ALL FIGHTING STOPPED IN SANTIAGO DE MARIA AT 0100 AND THAT, AS OF APPROXIMATELY 0615, WHEN THIS REPORTED IS BEING FILED, THERE HAS BEEN NO MORE FIRING IN THE AREA.
IT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT COLOMBIAN AND VENEZUELAN AUTHORITIES DEALT A HARSH BLOW TO THE GUERRILLA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) WHEN, IN A BORDER REGION, THEY BROKE UP A REBEL COLUMN THAT OPERATED IN BOTH COUNTRIES.
ADMIRAL JOSE TORIBIO MERINO, FORMER COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CHILEAN NAVY, TODAY HARSHLY ATTACKED PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA AND NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA.
AS WE HAVE REPORTED IN THE PAST FEW DAYS, HONDURAN ARMY TROOPS HAVE ENTERED SALVADORAN TERRITORY THROUGH SAN MIGUEL AND MORAZAN DEPARTMENTS TO CARRY OUT KIDNAPPINGS AND ROBBERIES AND COMMIT ABUSES AGAINST SALVADORAN CIVILIANS.
CESAR GAVIRIA TRUJILLO, A 43-YEAR-OLD ECONOMIST, BECAME THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE RULING COLOMBIAN LIBERAL PARTY TODAY BY A WIDE MARGIN OF 60 PERCENT IN THE "POPULAR CONSULTATION," AN ELECTION HELD AT THE SAME TIME AS THE LEGISLATIVE AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, THE RADIO STATION NETWORK CARACOL REPORTED TODAY.
AFTER STAYING IN POWER FOR 16 YEARS, GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET WAS FINALLY COMPELLED TO LEAVE THE LA MONEDA PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, WHICH HE CAPTURED DURING THE MILITARY COUP OF SEPTEMBER 11, 1973.
A BAND OF COLOMBIAN CRIMINALS AND DRUG TRAFFICKERS HAVE INVADED THE VERACRUZ COMMUNITY IN THE ARRAIJAN DISTRICT.
THE GENERAL COMMAND OF THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] DEEMS AS POSITIVE THE GOVERNMENT'S RECOGNITION OF THE FMLN'S GOOD-WILL GESTURES.
PICHINCHA BATTALION TROOPS HAVE SEIZED LETTERS, WHICH WERE GOING TO BE USED FOR EXTORTION, AND LARGE AMOUNTS OF WAR MATERIEL IN CLASHES WITH THE 6TH FARC FRONT IN THE BORDER AREA OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF VALLE DEL CAUCA AND CAUCA.
IN SEPTEMBER 1970, I WAS IN JAIL WITH OTHER COMRADES.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES CHARGED TODAY THAT A GROUP OF GUERRILLAS ATTACKED A CONTINGENT OF SOLDIERS IN THE TOWN OF VICTORIA, NORTHEASTERN CABANAS DEPARTMENT, FROM A SETTLEMENT FOR DISPLACED PERSONS.
U.S. VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE TALKED WITH PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA DURING AN OFFICIAL LUNCH AND TOLD HIM THAT HE FULLY AGREES WITH THE NEED TO DEMOBILIZE AND DISARM THE CONTRAS BEFORE 25 APRIL TO GUARANTEE A NORMAL TRANSITION OF POWER TO THE NEW GOVERNMENT.
TWO INDIVIDUALS SHOT FORMER GOVERNMENT JUNTA MEMBER GUSTAVO LEIGH GUZMAN AT POINT BLANK RANGE THIS MORNING.
DANIEL SOLORZANO, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE RULING GUATEMALAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON 21 MARCH BY UNIDENTIFIED MEN, THE POLICE REPORTED TODAY.
BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA, THE 36-YEAR-OLD PATRIOTIC UNION (UP) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, HAS DIED FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS, ANGELINO GARZON, SPOKESMAN FOR THAT POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, HAS REPORTED.
THE COLOMBIAN TEACHERS FEDERATION, FECODE, HAS JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL HOLD A NATIONWIDE 48-HOUR STRIKE TO PROTEST THE ASSASSINATION OF BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE PATRIOTIC UNION [UP].
RADIO CADENA NACIONAL HAS LEARNED THAT DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL OSCAR BOTERO RESTREPO HAS ORDERED THE INDEFINITE CONFINEMENT OF NATIONAL POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES TO THEIR BARRACKS.
OTTO SORTO MILLA, THE SON-IN-LAW OF GENERAL RAFAEL VILLAMARIONA, CHIEF OF THE SALVADORAN AIR FORCE, WAS WOUNDED IN AN ATTACK IN SAN SALVADOR TODAY AND IS IN "SERIOUS CONDITION," ACCORDING TO MILITARY SPOKESMEN AND DOCTORS.
PANAMANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER JULIO LINARES ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD GRANTED SAFE-CONDUCTS TO FIVE FORMER OFFICIALS OF THE DEPOSED REGIME, HEADED BY GENERAL MANUAL ANTONIO NORIEGA.
TENSION PREVAILED THIS EVENING IN THE CAPITAL AFTER THE BODY OF PATRIOTIC UNION [UP] CANDIDATE BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE OVAL ROOM IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS, WHERE HE WILL LIE IN STATE UNTIL HIS FUNERAL ON 24 MARCH.
ACCORDING TO A BOGOTA METROPOLITAN POLICE PROVISIONAL REPORT, PUBLIC ORDER DISTURBANCES, RESULTING FROM THE MURDER OF PATRIOTIC UNION [UP] CANDIDATE BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA, HAVE RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF ONE 10TH INFANTRY BRIGADE SOLDIER, THE INJURING OF TWO POLICEMEN, THE ARREST OF OVER 120 PEOPLE, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF FIVE PUBLIC BUSES.
DIEGO MONTANA CUELLAR, PRESIDENT OF THE PATRIOTIC UNION [UP], HAS RECEIVED A LETTER SIGNED BY PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA, IN WHICH HE EMPHATICALLY DENIES ANY PARTICIPATION IN THE ASSASSINATION OF BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA.
IN VIEW OF THE CONTINUING WAVE OF CRIMES AND TERRORIST ATTACKS, THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT TODAY DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN LIMA AND THE NEIGHBORING PORT OF CALLAO TO SAFEGUARD THE ELECTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 8 APRIL THIS YEAR.
IT WAS REPORTED TODAY THAT MEMBERS OF THE PEASANT DEFENSE PATROL KILLED, WITH CLUBS AND MACHETES, THREE PEASANTS ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED WITH TERRORISTS AND KIDNAPPED 17 OTHERS IN A TOWN OF THE ANDEAN PROVINCE OF AYACUCHO, 576 KM SOUTHEAST OF LIMA.
RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTRY'S NORTHERN REGION HAVE REPORTED NEW, MASS INFILTRATIONS OF CONTRAS FROM HONDURAS WHO PENETRATE DEEPLY INTO THE MOUNTAINS TO CONTINUE SOWING TERROR AMONG THE AREA'S INHABITANTS.
THE MAOIST SHINING PATH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AND THE TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (MRTA) ARE STAGING ATTACKS IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE PEOPLE BOYCOTT THE 8 APRIL PERUVIAN ELECTIONS.
IN PREVIOUS BROADCASTS WE REPORTED HONDURAN TROOP INCURSIONS INTO SALVADORAN TERRITORY.
THE NATIONAL POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT THE "PATRIOTIC LIBERATION FRONT" [FRENTE PATRIOTICO DE LIBERACION] BOMBED THREE IMPORTANT PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN LIMA TODAY, CAUSING A LOT OF PROPERTY DAMAGE BUT NO CASUALTIES.
THE ATTACKS ON FIVE OFFICES OF THE DEMOCRATIC FRONT (FREDEMO), WHICH IS HEADED BY MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, ON THE OFFICE OF THE RULING AMERICAN POPULAR REVOLUTIONARY ALLIANCE, APRA, AND AGAINST ONE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, TWO BANKS, ONE STORE, AND ONE MOVIE THEATER, SHOW THAT TERRORISM IN PERU CONTINUES TO BE USED IN AN ATTEMPT TO BOYCOTT THE 8 APRIL ELECTIONS.
THERE WAS AN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE THIS MORNING AT PUERTO OBALDIA, NEAR THE COLOMBIAN BORDER, WHICH LEFT TWO PERSONS DEAD AND ONE MISSING.
THE REFORMIST SECTOR OF THE LEFTIST PATRIOTIC UNION (UP) TODAY RESIGNED FROM THE PARTY'S NATIONAL COORDINATING BOARD, CREATING AN UNPRECEDENTED CRISIS IN ITS FIVE YEARS OF POLITICAL LIFE.
OBVIOUS PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN SOLVING THE REGIONAL CONFLICT IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
BOGOTA DOMESTIC SERVICE IN SPANISH AT 0230 GMT BEGINS TO BROADCAST LIVE OR RECORDED A SPEECH BY PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS FROM THE NARINO PALACE IN BOGOTA.
OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT FIVE POLICEMEN AND A CIVILIAN WERE KILLED, AND AT LEAST 24 SOLDIERS INJURED WHEN A VEHICLE LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES EXPLODED ON 2 APRIL NEAR A POLICE PRECINCT LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWESTERN OUTSKIRTS OF SAN SALVADOR.
PRESIDENTS DANIEL ORTEGA SAAVEDRA, OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ, RAFAEL LEONARDO CALLEJAS, MARCO VINICIO CEREZO AREVELO, ALFREDO CRISTIANI:
KIDNAPPING IS ONE OF COLOMBIA'S MOST PROFITABLE INDUSTRIES TO THE EXTENT THAT, ACCORDING TO POLICE STATISTICS, FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED EVERY DAY SO FAR IN 1990, A FIGURE DOUBLE THAT OF THE SAME PERIOD IN 1989.
THE GUATEMALAN VICE PRESIDENT ARRIVED IN MADRID THIS AFTERNOON.
DURING THE SEARCHES TODAY IN MEDELLIN, THE CAPITAL OF ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT, THE AUTHORITIES DISCOVERED WHAT THEY HAVE TERMED AS A VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNICATIONS CENTER OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL.
APPROXIMATELY 800 HEAVILY ARMED COLOMBIANS WITHOUT IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS WERE DISCOVERED CONDUCTING ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES AT THE BORDER BETWEEN PANAMA AND COLOMBIA, ACCORDING TO GOVERNMENT AND JUSTICE MINISTER RICARDO ARIAS CALDERON.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS DISPATCHES HAVE REPORTED ON PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S REMARKS ABOUT WHY THE NEFARIOUS DEATH SQUADS HAVE APPEARED AND STILL THRIVE IN THE COUNTRY.
AUTHORITIES REPORTED TODAY THAT LIBERAL SENATOR FEDERICO ESTRADA VELEZ, 54, ONE OF THE MAIN LEADERS OF THE RULING LIBERAL PARTY, WAS RELEASED TODAY IN MEDELLIN BY THE DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS THE EXTRADITABLES.
FIVE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND FIVE WERE WOUNDED DURING A FIERCE GUERRILLA ATTACK THIS MORNING IN THE CITY OF SUCHITOTO, CUZCATLAN DEPARTMENT, IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTRY, MILITARY SPOKESPERSONS HAVE REPORTED.
THE CRIMINAL DRUG MAFIAS OPERATING IN COLOMBIA ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THEY WILL INCREASE THEIR TERRORIST ATTACKS ON "THE INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL OLIGARCHY" IN RESPONSE TO THE ALLEGED DISAPPEARANCE OF SEVERAL OF THEIR ACCOMPLICES.
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT ON 6 APRIL AT 0230, THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] GUERRILLAS ATTACKED POSITIONS THAT WERE BEING GUARDED BY UNITS OF THE LIGHTNING BATTALION OF MILITARY DETACHMENT NO. 5 IN LAS GUARAS BRIDGE, LOCATED ON THE HIGHWAY THAT RUNS FROM SAN MARTIN TO SUCHITOTO, AND IN SAN PEDRO PERULAPAN, CUSCATLAN DEPARTMENT.
COLOMBIAN LEADER VIRGILIO BARCO BRIEFED FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERRAND HERE WEDNESDAY ON THE EFFORTS MADE BY BOGOTA TO FIGHT THE COUNTRY'S POWERFUL COCAINE TRAFFICKERS.
THE "SHINING PATH" TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IS KEEPING THREE PERUVIAN CITIES UNDER PRESSURE WITH THREE "ARMED STRIKES"-- STRIKES ENFORCED BY DEATH THREATS--THAT BEGAN TODAY IN AN EFFORT TO FORCE A BOYCOTT OF TOMORROW'S GENERAL ELECTIONS.
THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COFFEE MARKET WERE THE MAIN SUBJECTS DISCUSSED DURING THE TALKS WHICH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERRAND AND COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO HAD AT THE ELYSEE ON 4 APRIL.
THE ARMED FORCES REPORTED TODAY THAT 10 GUERRILLAS WERE KILLED AND SIX WERE WOUNDED DURING BATTLES IN THE LAST FEW HOURS IN VARIOUS AREAS OF EL SALVADOR.
OFFICIAL SOURCES TODAY REPORTED THAT A U.S. CITIZEN DIED AND ANOTHER WAS INJURED IN GUATEMALA WHEN A LIGHT PLANE OF THE U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (DEA) CRASHED DUE TO MECHANICAL PROBLEMS.
THE POLICE IN MEDELLIN, ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT, IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF COLOMBIA, HAVE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT SENATOR FEDERICO ESTRADA VELEZ, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LEADERS OF COLOMBIA'S LIBERAL PARTY, WAS KIDNAPPED BY UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS IN MEDELLIN TODAY.
COLONEL INOCENTE MONTANO, SALVADORAN DEPUTY SECURITY MINISTER, TODAY ADMITTED THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE SEIZURE OF AN ARMS SHIPMENT IN HONDURAS ON 7 APRIL MAY MEAN THAT THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS ARE PLANNING A NEW MILITARY OFFENSIVE.
A SLIGHT TREMOR MEASURING THREE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCALE OF ONE TO 12 ROCKED SOUTHWEST COLOMBIA AT 1027 LOCAL (1527 GMT) WITHOUT CAUSING ANY DAMAGE OR VICTIMS, THE OCCIDENTE OBSERVATORY IN THE CITY OF CALI, 500 KM FROM BOGOTA, HAS REPORTED.
SALVADORAN MILITARY SPOKESMEN REVEALED TODAY THAT A REBEL CELL, IN WHICH TWO HONDURAN WOMEN ARE MEMBERS, CLANDESTINELY INTRODUCED INTO THE COUNTRY, THROUGH HONDURAS, SEVERAL PISTOLS, THOUSANDS OF ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, SOVIET RIFLES, MEDICINE, AND EXPLOSIVES FOR THE GUERRILLAS.
VARIOUS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS HAVE MADE POSSIBLE THE MEETING IN OSLO, NORWAY'S CAPITAL.
THROUGH HIS SPOKESMAN, U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL VISIT CHILE IN SEPTEMBER.
A DELEGATION FROM LA FANMI SE LA VI [LITERALLY,"THE FAMILY IS LIFE", AN ORGANIZATION HEADED BY FATHER JEAN BERTRAND ARISTIDE] IS GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STREET URCHINS BEING HELD 23-30 APRIL IN BUENOS AIRES, CAPITAL OF ARGENTINA.
DEFENSE MINISTER HUMBERTO ROMERO SAID TODAY THAT ARGENTINA HAS "SUSPENDED AND FROZEN" THE "CONDOR" MISSILE PROJECT.
INVESTIGATIONS UNDER WAY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN FRUITLESS REGARDING THE ALLEGED PRESENCE OF SPANISH, BRITISH, ISRAELI, OR ITALIAN TERRORISTS IN COLOMBIA, FOLLOWING THE FOILED ATTACK ON SEVEN GENERALS, EIGHT COLONELS, AND OTHER TOP COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY AND NATIONAL POLICE IN MEDELLIN.
PRIME MINISTER FELIPE GONZALEZ BELIEVES THAT THE LATEST BASQUE FATHERLAND LIBERTY [ETA] ATTACKS SIGNIFY THE RECOGNITION OF AN EXTRAORDINARY WEAKNESS OF THE TERRORISTS.
CARLOS PIZARRO, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE DISBANDED M-19 GUERRILLA GROUP, WAS SHOT THURSDAY ABOARD A PASSENGER PLANE, AIRPORT OFFICIALS REPORTED.
CARLOS PIZARRO, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE DISBANDED M-19 GUERRILLA GROUP, DIED IN HOSPITAL THURSDAY AFTER BEING SPRAYED WITH SUBMACHINEGUN FIRE ABOARD A PASSENGER PLANE, HIS BROTHER EDUARD SAID.
THE CALLER IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS ZAPATOCA -- THIS MUST BE AN ALIAS.
A FEW MINUTES AGO AN OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY FUND [CNPS] READ THE FOLLOWING COMMUNIQUE CONFIRMING THE DEATH OF MR. PIZARRO.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS ANNOUNCED A TOTAL OFFENSIVE TO CAPTURE MEDELLIN CARTEL BOSS PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA FOLLOWING THE DEATH YESTERDAY OF NINE PEOPLE IN AN ATTACK BY THE EXTRADITABLES IN MEDELLIN.
GOVERNMENT MINISTER HORACIO SERPA URIBE, WHO HAS JUST LEFT THE NATIONAL SOCIAL WELFARE INSTITUTE, HAS DENOUNCED CARLOS PIZARRO LEONGOMEZ' ASSASSINATION.
THE LEFTIST PATRIOTIC UNION (UP) TODAY ASKED COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO TO BE ADMITTED TO THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS HOLDING WITH DIVERSE POLITICAL GROUPS TO REACH AN AGREEMENT THAT WILL PERMIT THE INTRODUCTION OF NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS.
COLOMBIANS, DURING THESE MONTHS OF NATIONAL TRAGEDY WE HAVE BEEN HIT BY EVENTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN: THE MURDER OF CARLOS PIZARRO SOUGHT BOTH TO DISRUPT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS, AS WELL AS TO DESTROY THE PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND M- 19 [19 APRIL MOVEMENT] HAD CAREFULLY BUILT, SURPASSING NUMEROUS OBSTACLES.
ANTONIO NAVARRO WOLFF, WHO HAD BEEN THE NUMBER TWO MAN IN THE 19 APRIL MOVEMENT (M-19), WAS NOMINATED TODAY AS THE NEW PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO REPLACE CARLOS PIZARRO LEONGOMEZ, WHO WAS MURDERED ON 26 APRIL.
FOLLOWING THE FUNERAL OF M-19 [19 APRIL MOVEMENT] PRESIDENT CARLOS PIZARRO LEONGOMEZ, THE GROUP'S NEW PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ANTONIO NAVARRO WOLFF SAID THAT HIS GROUP WILL CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE.
EVERYBODY IS PRAISING AND JUSTIFYING THE ARGENTINE CONDOR II PROJECT -- THE ONLY ONE WE HAD -- NOW THAT IT HAS OFFICIALLY DIED, HOWEVER, A MORE TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE DEFUNCT PROJECT WILL REVEAL THE GAP LEFT BY OUR FLIMSY SPACE PROJECT.
ECUADORAN SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS SECRETARY PEDRO SAAD ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT A GROUP OF COLOMBIANS DRESSED AS MILITARY MEN ON 28 APRIL KIDNAPPED U.S. CITIZEN SCOTT HEYNDAL, KILLED A COLOMBIAN, AND WOUNDED AN ECUADOREAN.
THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE ARMED FORCES IS ANALYZING NEWS REPORTS ABOUT COLONEL SIGIFREDO OCHOA PEREZ, PRESIDENT OF AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION, HAVING SAID THAT THE OFFICER INVOLVED IN THE DEATH OF SIX JESUITS AND THEIR TWO MAIDS "FOLLOWED ORDERS FROM ABOVE".
FOLLOWING A MEETING OF THE GENERAL STAFF WITH ALL THE BRIGADE AND DETACHMENT COMMANDERS, THE ARMED FORCES TODAY ISSUED A PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE DESCRIBING THE RECENT STATEMENTS BY COLONEL SIGIFREDO OCHOA PEREZ AS IRRESPONSIBLE AND TENDENTIOUS.
SALVADORAN GUERRILLA GROUPS LAUNCHED SEVERAL ATTACKS ON SEVERAL POINTS OF THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL TONIGHT CAUSING BLACKOUTS AND AN UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF DEAD, IN ADDITION TO CAUSING PANIC AMONG THE CITIZENRY.
HE ARMED FORCES HAVE REPORTED THAT A GROUP OF REBELS BELONGING TO THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) THIS MORNING STAGED AN ARMED ATTACK ON THE RESIDENCE OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI.
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE GENERAL COMMAND OF THE FMLN: WE ANNOUNCE THAT BETWEEN THE NIGHT OF 1 MAY AND THE EARLY MORNING OF 2 MAY, OUR FORCES CONDUCTED SEVERAL MILITARY OPERATIONS IN SAN SALVADOR AND OTHER CITIES OF THE COUNTRY IN RESPONSE TO:
THE 19 APRIL MOVEMENT [M - 19] TODAY ACCUSED THE COLOMBIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OF ASSASSINATING M-19 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CARLOS PIZARRO.
A GROUP PURPORTEDLY REPRESENTING YOUNG SALVADORAN MILITARY OFFICERS HAS CALLED FOR A PURGE OF THE ARMED FORCES HERE, ACCUSING THEIR SUPERIORS OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE MASSACRE OF SIX JESUIT PRIESTS.
THE YOUNG MILITARY OFFICERS WHO HAVE CIRCULATED A 5-PAGE LETTER OUTLINING THEIR VIEWS CONTEND THAT THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEGLECT IN CORRECTING WRONGDOINGS COMMITTED BY THE U.S. ADVISERS AND EMBASSY ARE THE MAIN PROBLEMS KEEPING THE COUNTRY MIRED IN WAR.
SAN SALVADOR DOMESTIC SERVICE IN SPANISH AT 1808 GMT ON 3 MAY BEGINS TO BROADCAST LIVE A NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE IN SAN SALVADOR.
COMMANDER JORGE MELENDEZ (JONAS), A TOP SALVADORAN GUERRILLA LEADER, ADMITTED ON THURSDAY TO A CHANGE IN THE U.S. POLICY TOWARD THIS COUNTRY AND SAID THAT THE GEORGE BUSH ADMINISTRATION NOW "FAVORS" A NEGOTIATED POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE WAR.
THE MILITARY HIGH COMMAND EMPHATICALLY REJECTS THE JUNIOR OFFICER'S STATEMENTS, CONSIDERED A TYPE OF GRAY PROPOGANDA, BECAUSE NO PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM.
OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT A GUATEMALAN CARGO PLANE OWNED BY THE TRASLADOS COMPANY CRASHED THIS AFTERNOON ON TOP OF SEVERAL HOUSES IN NORTHERN GUATEMALA CITY, CAUSING AN UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF DEAD AND WOUNDED.
CIVIL AERONAUTICS AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT FOUR PLANE ACCIDENTS HAVE BROUGHT DESTRUCTION AND DEATH TO GUATEMALA IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS.
THE MUTUAL SUPPORT GROUP (GAM) HAS REPORTED FINDING 25 CLANDESTINE CEMETERIES IN THE COUNTRY'S WESTERN HIGH PLATEAU AREA, NOTING THAT PROCEEDINGS REQUIRED FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CEMETERIES HAVE BEGUN.
THE POLICE CONFIRMED TODAY THAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ALBERTO FUJIMORI ESCAPED A DYNAMITE ATTACK PERPETRATED BY A SHINING PATH CELL ON 6 MAY.
THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS WARNED TODAY THAT THE POSSIBLE REPLACEMENT OF GENERAL HUMBERTO LARIOS BY COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CURRENT CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES, "WILL SERIOUSLY AFFECT THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS" WITH THE GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL BE RESUMED THIS COMING 16 MAY IN VENEZUELA.
IN CHILE, FOREIGN MINISTER ENRIQUE SILVA CIMMA HAS PROTESTED TO ISRAELI AMBASSADOR DANIYEL MOQEDI OVER HIS STATEMENTS ON THE PLO.
FIRST LADY OF THE NATION, MR. VICE PRESIDENT, YOUR EXCELLENCIES OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES HIGH COMMAND, GENERALS, CHIEFS, OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, TROOPS, PUBLIC SECURITY POLICEMEN, AND ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL, SALVADORAN PEOPLE:
A QUAKE MEASURING FOUR DEGREES ON THE RICHTER SCALE ROCKED THE SALVADORAN CAPITAL TODAY AT 1008 LOCAL (1608 GMT), BUT THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF INJURIES OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.
ECUADORAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER CORDOVEZ, MADAME CORDOVEZ, AND FOUR OTHER ECUADORAN OFFICIALS ARRIVED IN LLASA ON THE MORNING OF 5 MAY.
DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL RAFAEL HUMBERTO LARIOS STATED TODAY THAT THE OFFICERS WHO COULD SERVE AS WITNESSES IN THE CASE OF THE SIX JESUIT PRIESTS ASSASSINATED AT THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ARE TAKING TRAINING COURSES ABROAD.
ACTING ON INFORMATION OBTAINED DURING QUESTIONING OF POLICEMEN INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL COCAINE TRADE, BRAZILIAN POLICE AGENTS SEIZED A LAB IN WESTERN MATO GROSSO DO SUL STATE IN EARLY APRIL.
THE COLOMBIAN SUPREME COURT TODAY DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL THE REGISTRATION OF FIVE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR THE UPCOMING 27 MAY ELECTIONS.
THE PERUVIAN EMBASSY SALUTES THE HONORABLE FOREIGN MINISTRY AND IN REFERENCE TO NOTE NO. A.J.122 FROM THAT MINISTRY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE DULY ACKNOWLEDGED NOTE DPG 1794 OF 30 APRIL 1990 FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, THROUGH WHICH THIS EMBASSY HAS BEEN INFORMED THAT OUR REFUGEE GONZALO GONZALEZ RIVERA IS ACCUSED OF BEING THE MASTERMIND OF CHILD MARCOS ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ JUSTINES' MURDER ACCORDING TO CANCIO CIACCI TASON'S STATEMENTS.
ST. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA, MAY 13, CANA -- BRITISH LAWYER LOUIS BLOM COOPER WAS PREPARING TO HEAD BACK TO LONDON SUNDAY AFTER DISCUSSIONS HERE ON A JUDICIAL INQUIRY INTO A 1989 ARMS SHIPMENT THROUGH ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA.
ERNESTO BUENANO AND JAIME GALARZA, AUTHORS OF THE BOOKS PLANNED CRIME AND WHO KILLED ROLDOS, ARE SCHEDULED TO TESTIFY ON TUESDAY, 15 MAY, BEFORE THE CONGRESS' MULTIPARTY COMMISSION THAT IS INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF FORMER PRESIDENT JAIME ROLDOS AGUILERA.
AT LEAST SIX [AS HEARD] BOMBS EXPLODED IN VARIOUS PLACES IN THE CAPITAL DURING THE NIGHT.
THE PERUVIAN POLICE, AND PARTS OF THE ARMY, HAVE RECEIVED ORDERS OF "STRICT CONFINEMENT TO BARRACKS" IN VIEW OF THE 17 MAY ANNIVERSARY OF THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION SHINING PATH.
GOVERNMENT SOURCES ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THREE POLICEMEN FROM THE GUATEMALA POLICE IDENTIFICATION DEPARTMENT WERE KILLED BY GUERRILLAS OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
TERRORIST ACTIONS WERE REPORTED TONIGHT SOUTH OF GUATEMALA CITY, A FEW HOURS AFTER A MASS TRANSIT BUS AND SEVERAL TIRES WERE BURNED IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY.
WHEN HE BEGAN HIS JOB AS GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT AFTER DECADES OF MILITARY REGIMES THAT LEFT BEHIND 100,000 FATALITIES, CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT MARCO VINICIO AREVALO CEREZO HAD PROMISES FOR THE FUTURE AND THINGS TO HIS CREDIT IN THE PAST.
THE PRESUMED SUBVERSIVE GROUP M-20 [20 DECEMBER MOVEMENT] THREATENED ON 15 MAY TO ENTER THE PERUVIAN EMBASSY AND FREE THE REFUGEES THERE.
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO SAID TODAY IN CARACAS THAT HE "FIRMLY BELIEVES" THAT A SALVADORAN RIGHT-WING POLITICAL GROUP PARTICIPATED IN THE ASSASSINATION IN GUATEMALA OF SALVADORAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEADER HECTOR OQUELI AND HIS COMPANION GILDA FLORES IN LATE JANUARY.
THE BUS STRIKE IN GUATEMALA CITY CONTINUED FOR THE FOURTH DAY TODAY.
NINE YEARS AGO TODAY, THEN ECUADORAN PRESIDENT JAIME ROLDOS AGUILERA DIED WHEN HIS PLANE CRASHED WHILE ON A FLIGHT TO THE INTERIOR OF HIS COUNTRY.
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO LEFT HERE TODAY FOR HIS COUNTRY AT 1400 (1600 GMT), OFFICIAL SOURCES IN THE VENEZUELAN CAPITAL HAVE CONFIRMED.
FOLLOWING IS A COMPILATION OF REPORTS ON DRUG SEIZURES AND ARRESTS RELATED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING IN BUREAU COVERAGE AREA FROM 11 MAY TO 18 MAY.
A MILITARY SPOKESMAN HAS REPORTED THAT ONE CIVILIAN WAS KILLED AND FIVE OTHER PEOPLE, INCLUDING A POLICEMAN, WERE INJURED TODAY AS A RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION OF A GRENADE THROWN AT A POLICE PATROL CAR BY ALLEGED URBAN GUERRILLA COMMANDOS.
CHILEAN PRESIDENT PATRICIO AYLWIN WILL TODAY REPORT ON THE FIRST 70 DAYS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION AND WILL MAKE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCERNING HIS FUTURE PLANS IN A SPEECH TO A PLENARY MEETING OF THE CHILEAN CONGRESS THAT WILL MARK THE BEGINNING OF SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL SESSIONS.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] INFORMS THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN: I ADDRESS YOU AT A MOMENT WHEN ALL GOOD COLOMBIANS ARE FILLED WITH PAIN.
ALL MEDIA IN GUAYAQUIL AND MANY CORRESPONDENTS WHO HAVE COME TO THE PORT OF GUAYAQUIL TO COVER THE FOURTH ALFARO LIVES DAMMIT [AVC] NATIONAL CONFERENCE ARE STILL UNAWARE OF WHERE THE MEETING IS BEING HELD.
THE GUATEMALA ARMY DENIED TODAY THAT GUERRILLAS ATTACKED THE "SANTO TOMAS" PRESIDENTIAL FARM, LOCATED ON THE PACIFIC SIDE, WHERE PRESIDENT CEREZO HAS BEEN STAYING SINCE 2 FEBRUARY.
HEAVY FIGHTING WITH AIR SUPPORT RAGED LAST NIGHT IN NORTHWESTERN SAN SALVADOR WHEN MEMBERS OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] ATTACKED AN ELECTRIC POWER SUBSTATION.
EL SALVADOR'S SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE HAS RELIEVED JUDGE HECTOR LARIOS OF HIS DUTIES AS JUDGE AND NOTARY BECAUSE HE ORDERED THE RELEASE OF A BAND OF ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS.
LAST NIGHT'S TERRORIST TARGET WAS THE ANTIOQUIA LIQUEUR PLANT.
THE EXTRADITABLES TODAY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MURDER OF ANTIOQUIA POLICE COMMANDER COLONEL WALDEMAR FRANKLIN QUINTERO, WHICH OCCURRED THIS MORNING IN MEDELLIN.
DIEGO BIAFARA, ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY [DAS] AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY INFORMANT, WHO APPEARED BEFORE A U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON 13 SEPTEMBER, REVEALED UNKNOWN LINKS BETWEEN THE ISRAELI AND BRITISH MERCENARIES, WHO HAVE TRAINED PARAMILITARY GROUPS IN OUR COUNTRY.
THE ARMED FORCES OF EL SALVADOR HEREBY REPORTS TO THE CITIZENS IN GENERAL THAT THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN REPELLED BY OUR COURAGEOUS SOLDIERS AND THAT THERE ARE NOW ONLY A FEW DISPERSED GROUPS OF CRIMINALS WHO ARE LOOTING.
ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSION:
EDMUNDO VARGAS CARRENO, CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTRY UNDER SECRETARY, HAS STATED THAT THE BRYANT TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES WILL BE APPLIED IN THE LETELIER CASE ONLY TO COMPENSATE THE RELATIVES OF THE FORMER CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTER MURDERED IN WASHINGTON AND THE RELATIVES OF HIS U.S. SECRETARY, RONNIE MOFFIT.
LEFTIST GUERRILLAS EARLY TUESDAY ATTACKED A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD IN NORTHERN SAN SALVADOR WHERE MANY GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY LEADERS HAVE THEIR HOMES.
THE TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (MRTA), A PERUVIAN GUERRILLA ORGANIZATION, HAS SENT A LETTER TO PERUVIAN CARDINAL JUAN LANDAZURI, PROPOSING THAT A DIALOGUE BE HELD TO RESTORE PEACE TO PERU.
THE GUATEMALAN GUERRILLAS TODAY PROPOSED "BEGINNING A DIALOGUE PROCESS AND TALKS" AMONG THE VARIOUS SECTORS OF THE COUNTRY TO TRY AND PUT AN END TO "REPRESSION, TERROR, AND VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND TO BEGIN A REAL DEMOCRATIC PROCESS."
THE FMLN GENERAL COMMAND REPORTS:
TO DATE, THE ARMY HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF A REPORT THAT THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT HAS SAID IT SENT TO PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI ON THE INVESTIGATIONS CARRIED OUT IN THAT COUNTRY CONCERNING THE DEATH OF SALVADORAN LEFTIST LEADER HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES.
AFTER NEARLY A 2-MONTH ABSENCE FROM THE NATIONAL PRESS, MAJOR ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON HOLDS THE VIEW THAT THE ARMED FORCES SHOULD NOT BE CRITICIZED FOR THE ISOLATED BEHAVIOR OF SOME OF ITS MEMBERS.
THE ARMED FORCES HAVE EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL.
FMLN COMMUNIQUE TO ALL THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE: CONCERNING THE TELA AGREEMENTS, THE FMLN GENERAL COMMAND HEREBY STATES THE FOLLOWING:
THE CAR BOMB ATTACK ON 6 DECEMBER WHICH DESTROYED THE BUILDING THAT HOUSES THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY (DAS, SECRET POLICE) HAD BEEN PLANNED SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER, ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL DISCLOSURES.
SECURITY MEASURES IN THE CAPITAL HAVE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY BEEFED UP AFTER THE MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES DISCOVERED A TERRORIST PLAN AGAINST A STATE INSTITUTION.
THE PRESENCE OF BRITISH AND ISRAELI MERCENARIES, PAID BY COLOMBIAN EXTREME RIGHT-WING GROUPS AND DRUG TRAFFICKERS, WAS CONFIRMED TODAY BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY (DAS), COLOMBIA'S SECRET POLICE.
IT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY REPORTED IN LA PAZ THAT A BOMB ATTACK OCCURRED EARLY THIS MORNING SOMEWHERE NEAR THE PLACE WHERE BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT JAIME PAZ ZAMORA AND PERUVIAN PRESIDENT GARCIA ARE TO MEET TODAY.
ENDING OUR NEWSCAST, WE REPORT THAT AN ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE SPOKESMAN STATED TO A RPC TELEVISION REPORTER LATE THIS AFTERNOON THAT THERE ARE NO GROUNDS TO MANTAIN THE ARREST ORDERS AGAINST FORMER MAYOR GONZALO, AKA CHALO, GONZALEZ, WHO HAD TAKEN ASYLUM IN THE PERUVIAN EMBASSY IN PANAMA CITY.
ON 30 NOVEMBER WHEN U.S. PRESIDENT BUSH SET FORTH TO MALTA TO MEET WITH SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV, A REPORT FROM ANGOLA SAID THAT A CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY [CIA] AIRPLANE ON A CLANDESTINE MISSION OF DELIVERING WEAPONS TO THE ANTIGOVERNMENT NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA (UNITA) CRASHED IN SOUTHERN ANGOLA ON 27 NOVEMBER AND THAT THE FOUR AMERICANS ON THE PLANE WERE KILLED.
NEXT JUNE AN ENTIRE U.S. ARMY COMPANY WILL CARRY OUT JOINT MANEUVERS WITH ARGENTINE TROOPS IN A PROVINCE OF THE LITTORAL REGION.
THE PEACE PROCESS WITH M-19 [19 APRIL MOVEMENT] THAT WAS INTERRUPTED DUE TO THE MURDER OF TWO MEMBERS OF THAT SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATION -- NOW OBSERVING A TRUCE -- WAS RESTORED FOLLOWING A VISIT BY PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER RAFAEL PARDO TO THE M-19 CAMP IN SANTO DOMINGO, CAUCA DEPARTMENT.
TODAY SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI REJECTED A REBEL PROPOSAL TO IMMEDIATELY NEGOTIATE A CEASE-FIRE WITH THE ARMY UNDER OAS AND UNITED NATIONS SUPERVISION; HOWEVER, HE DID EXPRESS HIS INTENTION TO SEEK A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE ARMED CONFLICT IN THE COUNTRY.
PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION.
ATTENTION: A GROUP OF NINE U.S. SOLDIERS STATIONED AT THE PALMEROLA BASE WHO WERE VISITING THE CITY OF LA CEIBA WERE ATTACKED AT 0030 TODAY.
TWO U.S. CITIZENS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE LAST FEW HOURS, VICTIMS OF THE SALVADORAN WAR THAT THEIR OWN COUNTRY SUPPORTS AND FINANCES, LABOR AND POLITICAL LEADERS HAVE TOLD DPA.
TEOTECACINTE -- MORE THAN 400 COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES HAVE DESERTED THE CAMPS IN YAMALES AND ARE ROAMING THE AREAS OF TROJES, CIFUENTES, JAMASTRAN, EL PARAISO, DANLI, SAN MARCOS, AND TEGUCIGALPA, DESPERATELY TRYING TO SLIP INTO THE REFUGEE GROUPS TO BE REPATRIATED -- HAD TIES WITH THE CONTRAS FOR 7 YEARS AND WAS FINALLY REPATRIATED ON WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST.
THE INVESTIGATIVE POLICE HAVE ADMITTED THAT THE INDIVIDUALS THAT FIRED THEIR GUNS DURING A DEMONSTRATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT BERNARDO O'HIGGINS AVENUE YESTERDAY ARE MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
TODAY "THE EXTRADITABLES," AN ORGANIZATION CONSIDERED TO BE THE ARMED SECTOR OF THE "MEDELLIN CARTEL," ORDERED "ITS LEADERS" IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS "TO TAKE HOSTAGES FROM TRADITIONAL BOURGEOISIE SECTORS TO FINANCE THE WAR" IT IS WAGING WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO.
ATTENTION, WE HAVE A LAST MINUTE REPORT.
FOLLOWING THE U.S. INVASION OF GRENADA ISLAND, THE WORLD DISCARDED ANY FURTHER POSSIBILITY OF A U.S. ARMED OPERATION AGAINST ANOTHER NATION OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT, DESPITE THE DETERIORATION OF ITS RELATIONS WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTS AND PROVOCATIONS AGAINST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
WE NOW HAVE COLONEL SIGIFREDO OCHOA PEREZ ON THE TELEPHONE.
TODAY THE SALVADORAN DEFENSE MINISTRY FLATLY DENIED CHARGES RAISED YESTERDAY BY AN ALLEGED "JUNIOR OFFICERS' COMMAND" THAT BLAMES CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE ARMED FORCES FOR THE MURDER OF THE SIX JESUITS.
THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] ISSUED A COMMUNIQUE A FEW HOURS AGO DENYING THAT IT DIRECTED AN ATTACK AGAINST SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE PRESIDENT MAURICIO GUTIERREZ CASTRO.
ECUADOR TODAY CONCEDED THE POSSIBILITY THAT THERE MAY BE COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN ECUADORAN TERRITORY, ALTHOUGH IT EMPHASIZED THAT BORDER CONTROLS HAVE BEEN REINFORCED "TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF VIOLENCE AND TERROR."
PASTO -- COMMERCE AT THE ECUADORAN BORDER IS VIRTUALLY PARALYZED AFTER THE BORDER WAS CLOSED IN THE WAKE OF SERIOUS INCIDENTS BETWEEN STRIKING TRANSPORTERS AND ECUADORAN POLICE.
MEMBERS OF THE 8TH FRONT OF THE SELF-STYLED REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA [FARC] HAVE CARRIED OUT TERRORIST ATTACKS IN SOUTHERN CAUCA DEPARTMENT TO PROTEST PATRIOTIC UNION [UP] PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA'S MURDER.
PANAMA'S ARCHBISHOP MARCOS MCGRATH, PANAMA'S EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE PRESIDENT JOSE LUIS LACUNZA, AND PANAMANIAN ABDIEL ADAMES, PRESIDENT OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN HIGHER UNIVERSITY COUNCIL (CSUCA), HAVE CONDEMNED THE ASSASSINATION OF SIX JESUITS IN EL SALVADOR AT DAWN TODAY.
TWO BOLIVIANS CARRYING 2.5 KG PURE COCAINE IN A HANDBAG HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BY CARABINEROS OS-7 DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL.
AT LEAST 18 CASUALTIES, AMONG BOTH SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS, RESULTED FROM SEVERAL GUERRILLA ATTACKS ON THE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE, THE CENTRAL ELECTORAL COUNCIL, AND OTHER MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN SAN SALVADOR AND SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI DENIED THAT THERE IS DIVISION IN THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES AND SAID THE CHANGES ANNOUNCED 2 DAYS AGO WERE "ROUTINE."
ACCORDING TO SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI, THE GOVERNMENT HAS RECEIVED REPORTS, WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS DISTURBING, THAT THE REBELS ARE PLANNING TO UNLEASH AN OFFENSIVE IN THE CAPITAL CITY ON THE VERY DAY WHEN PEACE TALKS ARE SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN COSTA RICA.
PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI HOLDS THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF DR JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH AND CALLED THE ATTACK AN ATTEMPT TO HINDER DIALOGUE.
THIS IS A NIGHT OF HAPPINESS FOR ALL OF MY FAMILY, FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO WITH THEIR DEDICATION AND THEIR WORK HAVE ACCOMPANIED ME IN THIS DIFFICULT MOMENT OF COLOMBIAN LIFE.
GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA ALIAS "THE MEXICAN," A WELL-KNOWN COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER WHO IS ONE OF THE DRUG LORDS OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL HAS ADMITTED THAT HE IS IN FAVOR OF "CEASING OFFENSIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE MILITARY FORCES."
THE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) HAS ANNOUNCED IN A COMMUNIQUE SENT TO ANTONIO ROLDAN BETANCUR, GOVERNOR OF THE NORTHWESTERN ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT, THAT IT REJECTS THE PEACE PLAN PROPOSED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THAT IT WILL CONTINUE ARMED ATTACKS, IT WAS LEARNED A FEW HOURS AGO.
THE ROME FOREIGN MINISTRY ON FRIDAY CONFIRMED THAT TWO ITALIAN ENGINEERS AND A SPANISH TECHNICIAN WERE KIDNAPPED THURSDAY IN COLOMBIA FROM A CONSTRUCTION SITE SOME THIRTY KILOMETERS FROM THE CITY OF MEDELLIN.
THE BODIES OF THE SPANISH JESUITS MURDERED LAST FRIDAY [17 NOVEMBER] BY UNIFORMED INDIVIDUALS WERE BURIED IN SAN SALVADOR TODAY.
DESPITE AMPLE EVIDENCE, NO SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT HAD BLAMED THE ARMED FORCES OF KILLING DEFENSELESS CIVILIANS SINCE THE CIVIL WAR WORSENED IN 1979.
THE GROUP THAT STORMED THE 3D INFANTRY REGIMENT IN LA TABLADA INTENDED TO OVERTHROW THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITIES AND TO IMPLEMENT "A PLAN OF GOVERNMENT" WITH ARMY FUNDS.
TWO U.S. MORMON MISSIONARIES -- AGED 19 AND 21 -- WERE SHOT TO DEATH LAST NIGHT BY A GROUP OF TERRORISTS FROM THE ZARATE WILKA ARMED FORCES OF LIBERATION [FAL].
AFTER A HUGE EFFORT THE ELECTRIC SUPPLY SYSTEM WAS QUICKLY RESTORED IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WHICH ON SATURDAY NIGHT WAS AFFECTED BY A BLACKOUT EXTENDING FROM COPIAPO, IN NORTHERN CHILE, TO TALCA, IN SOUTHERN CHILE.
POLICE TODAY REPORTED THAT DURING THE LAST FEW HOURS TERRORISTS STAGED THREE BOMB ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. PROPERTIES.
JOSE ALEJANDRO BONIVENTO, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE AND CURRENT MEMBER OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, RESIGNED HIS POST TODAY, CLAIMING THAT HE HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO UNDUE PRESSURE BY THE GOVERNMENT.
A COLOMBIAN JUDGE HAS PAID THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR DOING HER DUTY.
THE POLICE INSTITUTION REPORTED TODAY THAT THE RISARALDA PROVINCE 3D DISTRICT POLICE COMMANDER'S WIFE, STELA TORRADO DE OTALORA, WAS KILLED ON MONDAY, 4 AUGUST.
MONTERIA -- BLOODY CLASHES HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE IN THE RURAL AREA OF PUERTO LIBERTADOR MUNICIPALITY, SOUTH OF CORDOBA, SINCE 11 NOVEMBER.
LIBERAL SENATOR FEDERICO ESTRADA VELEZ WAS KIDNAPPED ON 3 APRIL AT THE CORNER OF 60TH AND 48TH STREETS IN WESTERN MEDELLIN, ONLY 100 METERS FROM A METROPOLITAN POLICE CAI [IMMEDIATE ATTENTION CENTER].
THE EXTRADITABLES, A COLOMBIAN MAFIA GROUP LINKED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING ACTIVITIES, ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THEY WILL LAY DOWN THEIR WEAPONS AND SUSPEND THEIR COCAINE SHIPMENTS.
MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT TWO PEASANTS WERE KILLED WHEN THEY SET OFF A MINE IN MORAZAN DEPARTMENT.
A SALVADORAN COURT YESTERDAY PRESENTED A SWORN DECLARATION BY PRESIDENT JOSE NAPOLEON DUARTE IN WHICH HE LINKS RIGHTIST LEADER ROBERTO D'AUBUISSON TO THE MARCH 1980 ASSASSINATION OF ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO.
WE BELIEVE WE HAVE MADE A GREAT EFFORT TO INCREASE THE POSSIBILITIES OF REACHING AN AGREEMENT.
GUILLERMO UNGO, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, AND LEADER OF THE CIVILIAN LEFT IN EL SALVADOR, TODAY LEFT FOR VENEZUELA ACCOMPANIED BY VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR FEDERICO MALESPINA, ACCORDING TO DIPLOMATIC SOURCES.
SAN SALVADOR DOMESTIC SERVICE IN SPANISH AT 1245 GMT ON 28 NOVEMBER BEGINS BROADCASTING A NUMBER OF REPORTS ON CLASHES BETWEEN SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES TROOPS AND FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] REBELS ON 27 AND 28 NOVEMBER.
YESTERDAY MORNING AT 0730, APPROXIMATELY 20 OR 30 TERRORISTS MACHINEGUNNED A ROUTE 302 BUS COVERING THE SAN SALVADOR - USULUTAN AND USULUTAN - SAN SALVADOR ROUTE.
A BOMB WENT OFF THIS MORNING NEAR A POWER TOWER IN SAN SALVADOR LEAVING A LARGE PART OF THE CITY WITHOUT ENERGY, BUT NO CASUALTIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
WHEN NAPOLEON DUARTE WAS PROCLAIMED PRESIDENT OF EL SALVADOR IN 1984, THE WHITE HOUSE, STATE DEPARTMENT, PENTAGON, AND ALL THE POWERFUL CIRCLES IN THE UNITED STATES WERE STRICKEN WITH EUPHORIA AND OPTIMISM.
WE WILL ORGANIZE A PLURALIST GOVERNMENT WHICH INCLUDES REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL THE PATRIOTIC GROUPS OF THE NATION.
WE URGE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATELY WITHDRAW FROM THE ILOPANGO AIR BASE THE U.S. PILOTS WHO ARE HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN AIR BOMBINGS DURING THE NIGHT TO RELIEVE THE TIRED AND GENOCIDAL PILOTS OF GENERAL JUAN RAFAEL BUSTILLO.
A REPORT FROM USULUTAN DEPARTMENT STATES THAT AT 0930 ON 18 DECEMBER, 18 OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED DURING THE BATTLE OF EL NISPERAL, WHICH IS LOCATED 4 KM NORTH OF THE CITY OF USULUTAN, WERE RELEASED.
THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT REPORTS THAT ON SUNDAY, 26 MARCH, AS RELATIVES WERE VISITING THE PAVON REHABILITATION FARM, A PRISON REVOLT ERUPTED.
THE HONDURAN POLICE TODAY PRESENTED TO REPORTERS TWO OF THE PRESUMED KILLERS OF CONTRA COMMANDER MANUEL RUGAMA ACEVEDO, ALIAS "AURELIANO."
IN HUANCAYO, IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THAT VICTOR POLAY CAMPOS, ALIAS COMRADE ROLANDO, ONE OF THE TOP LEADERS OF THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION MRTA, HAS BEEN CAPTURED.
POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT TERRORISTS TONIGHT BOMBED THE EMBASSIES OF THE PRC AND THE SOVIET UNION.
THE PERUVIAN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN TODAY ENTERED ITS FINAL STRETCH, WITH ONLY ONE WEEK TO GO IN AN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN THAT HAS BEEN THE MOST DISPUTED AND DANGEROUS ONE IN THE HISTORY OF THAT ANDEAN COUNTRY, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF TERRORIST THREATS.
WE HAVE A REPORT FROM SPAIN.
LAST NIGHT, A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, A VIOLENT EXPLOSION DAMAGED THE WINDOWS AND FACING OF THE SALVADORAN CONSULATE IN SANTIAGO.
A TERRORIST ARRESTED BY THE SALVADORAN NATIONAL POLICE, HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS RUTH ESPERANZA AGUILAR MARROQUIN, AKA SANDRA.
A POWERFUL DYNAMITE CHARGE TODAY EXPLODED NEAR THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LA PAZ.
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN: I AM ADDRESSING YOU AFTER OUR COUNTRY HAS BEGUN TO OVERCOME, WITH EFFORT AND TENACITY, THE FIRST OBSTACLES OF A SERIOUS CRISIS, THE FUTURE IMPLICATIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS OF WHICH WE STILL DO NOT KNOW.
DEAR RADIO AUDIENCE: FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO TALK TO YOU TONIGHT ABOUT A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY.
MEDELLIN MAYOR JUAN GOMEZ MARTINEZ ONCE MORE INSISTED TODAY ON "AN IMMEDIATE DIALOGUE" BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE COCAINE TRAFFICKERS "TO END THE WAR IN WHICH INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE BEING KILLED."
WE HAVE STARTED A NEW DAY, THE SEVENTH, AND THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] IS STILL HOLDING ITS POSITIONS.
THE CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF [COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE] HAS CATEGORICALLY DENIED THAT THERE ARE ANY RIFTS BETWEEN SALVADORAN ARMY OFFICERS AND U.S. MILITARY ADVISERS, AS ASSERTED BY THE WASHINGTON POST.
THE SUPREME COURT TODAY ORDERED THE APPOINTEMENT OF A SPECIAL JUDGE TO INVESTIGATE THE MURDER OF JECAR NEGHME, SPOKESMAN OF THE MIR [MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT].
THIS AFTERNOON, ON THE BERMEJA RIVER, SUCUMBIOS PROVINCE, IN NORTHEASTERN ECUADOR, AT APPROXIMATELY ONE AND A HALF KM FROM THE COLOMBIAN BORDER, A SMALL ECUADORAN FLAGSHIP WORKING WITH THE IMANCO MINING COMPANY, WAS INTERCEPTED BY A COLOMBIAN VESSEL WHICH FIRED AUTOMATIC WEAPONS.
FIGHTING RAGED ALL DAY LONG IN THE AREA AROUND SAN TERESA HOSPITAL, IN ZACATELUCA, LA PAZ DEPARTMENT.
TODAY, MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY, ONCE AGAIN EXPERIENCED A TERRORIST ESCALATION WHEN SEVEN BANK BRANCH OFFICES WERE SHAKEN BY EXPLOSIVES THAT CAUSED HEAVY DAMAGE BUT NO FATALITIES, ACCORDING TO RADIO REPORTS BROADCAST IN BOGOTA (500 KM TO THE SOUTH).
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS CUT SHORT HIS STAY IN JAPAN AND LEFT FOR HOME FRIDAY MORNING FOLLOWING A TRUCK-BOMB EXPLOSION IN THE COLOMBIAN CAPITAL OF BOGOTA ON WEDNESDAY.
WE ARE RECEIVING A REPORT RIGHT NOW ON THE SITUATION IN SAN SALVADOR.
PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI SAID TODAY THAT DESPITE THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT'S [FMLN] TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST SALVADORANS, HIS GOVERNMENT IS WILLING TO HOLD TALKS WITH THE REBELS.
TODAY RESCUE TEAMS, ARMY TROOPS, AND POLICE HAD THE SORRY TASK OF RECOVERING 107 DISFIGURED BODIES OF THE VICTIMS OF AVIANCA'S BOEING 727 THAT EXPLODED IN MIDAIR IN A SPARSELY POPULATED REGION NEAR BOGOTA.
HEAVY FIGHTING BROKE OUT IN THE NORTHERN PART OF SAN SALVADOR TONIGHT AT ABOUT 2115 (0315 GMT), AND AS OF NOW IT IS STILL GOING ON.
OUT OF THE TEN CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR THE COLOMBIAN PRESIDENCY, THE FOUR WHO HAVE THE BEST CHANCES OF WINNING HAVE INSERTED IN THEIR GOVERNMENT PLATFORMS SOLUTIONS TO THE CRISIS OF VIOLENCE THAT HAS TAKEN HOLD OF THE COUNTRY, CAUSED MAINLY BY THE NARCOTRAFFICKING MAFIAS AND THE GUERRILLA GROUPS.
MSGR ARTURO RIVERA Y DAMAS, ARCHBISHOP OF SAN SALVADOR, TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT HE HAS AGAIN RECEIVED DEATH THREATS THROUGH HIS SECRETARIES AND THE ARCHBISHOPRIC'S COOKS, "BUT I FEEL AT PEACE AND THAT I AM IN GOD'S HANDS," THE PASTOR SAID.
THE GUATEMALAN GUERRILLA MOVEMENT TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT IT WILL MAKE THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO AND THE GUATEMALAN ARMY "PAY DEARLY" FOR HAVING "INTERVENED" IN THE SALVADORAN CONFLICT.
THE EXTRADITABLES, THE ARMED BRANCH OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL, DENIED TODAY IN A TELEPHONE CALL TO A RADIO STATION BY AN ALLEGED MEMBER, ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DEATH OF CARLOS PIZARRO, POLITICAL LEADER AND FORMER GUERRILLA COMMANDER.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE BOMB ATTACK ON THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY [UCA] AT DAYBREAK ON 22 JULY, THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] STATES THE FOLLOWING:
THROUGH THESE MEANS, THE ARMED FORCES HEREBY NOTIFIES THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE, SPECIFICALLY THOSE LIVING IN THE ESCALON RESIDENTIAL AREA OF SAN SALVADOR, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HEED RUMORS CIRCULATING TO THE EFFECT THAT THE ESCALON RESIDENTIAL AREA WILL BE BOMBED.
TWO SUBVERSIVES WERE KILLED AND A POLICEMAN WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN A SHOOT-OUT EARLY THIS MORNING NEAR THE SAN CARLOS SERVICE STATION IN CANTO GRANDE.
SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS TODAY STATED THAT CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS WERE KILLED ON SATURDAY DURING AN ARMED CLASH BETWEEN THE HONDURAN AND SALVADORAN ARMIES.
DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL OSCAR BOTERO RESTREPO DISCLOSED THIS AFTERNOON THAT MEDELLIN CARTEL BOSS PABLO ESCOBAR GAVIRIA ORDERED THE ASSASSINATION OF BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF PATRIOTIC UNION, UP.
FRANCISCO MERINO, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC AND INTERIOR MINISTER, HAS STRONGLY CONDEMNED THE MURDER OF FORMER SUPREME COURT PRESIDENT FRANCISCO JOSE GUERRERO.
FIVE GUATEMALAN UNIVERSITY LEADERS THREATENED WITH DEATH HAVE SOUGHT REFUGE IN PANAMA, COSTA RICA, AND MEXICO, WHILE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OBSERVER PETER KOOIJMANS IS IN GUATEMALA CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION ON THE INCREASING VIOLENCE IN THIS CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY.
THE SALVADORAN ARMY REPORTED TODAY THAT IT HAD SEIZED AN ARSENAL IN THE NORTHERN OUTSKIRTS OF SAN SALVADOR.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE FREE ELECTIONS IN A COUNTRY WHERE REPRESSION PREVAILS.
UNFORTUNATELY MARRED BY A CARABINERO'S ASSASSINATION, WE HAVE RETURNED TO DEMOCRACY.
THE STATE'S SECRET SERVICES STILL HAVE NO CLUES REGARDING THE TWO U.S. CITIZENS WHO WERE KIDNAPPED IN THE PAST FEW HOURS BY GUERRILLAS OF THE ELN [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION] DURING OPERATIONS IN MEDELLIN.
BRAVE SALVADORAN PEOPLE, ON THIS OCCASION AND AS DEFENSE AND PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER, PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, AND A SALVADORAN CITIZEN, I AM VERY PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO BRING YOU THIS MESSAGE.
GENERAL CARLOS ARTURO CASADIEGO TORRADO, SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE COLOMBIAN POLICE, HAS REPORTED THE DEATH OF GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA.
THE ATTACK IN WHICH FIVE VENEZUELAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AT THE BORDER WITH COLOMBIA HAS BEEN BLAMED, ACCORDING TO SOME REPORTS, ON COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS AND DRUG TRAFFICKING GANGS OPERATING IN COLOMBIA.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES TODAY ANNOUNCED THE SEIZURE OF A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF WEAPONS FROM THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) GUERRILLAS AT A SAFE HOUSE IN THE NORTHERN SECTION OF THIS CAPITAL.
[REPORTER, IN PROGRESS] .
THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT HAS EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES FIVE [NUMBER AS RECEIVED] INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE LAST FEW HOURS, INCLUDING JOSE RAFAEL AVELLO SILVA, ALSO KNOWN AS EL MONO AVELLO.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT-ELECT ALFREDO CRISTIANI CONDEMNED THE TERRORIST KILLING OF ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERTO GARCIA ALVARADO AND ACCUSED THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN) OF THE CRIME.
AT LEAST SEVEN PERUVIAN PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS TRAVELLING ABOARD A MILITARY BUS WERE KILLED TODAY IN AN ATTACK IN DOWNTOWN LIMA.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA YESTERDAY STRONGLY CONDEMNED THE MURDER OF JORGE ADOLFO VARGAS GONZALEZ, SECOND SECRETARY OF THE NICARAGUAN EMBASSY IN GUATEMALA.
THE SUPREME COURT RULED TODAY THAT MOST OF THE DECREES ISSUED BY PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO TO FACE THE SITUATION OF PUBLIC ORDER IN THE COUNTRY ARE CONSTITUTIONAL.
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ' BROTHER-IN-LAW WAS KIDNAPPED IN COLOMBIA, ACCORDING TO FAMILY SOURCES IN CARACAS.
THE RECTOR OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY [UCA], FATHER MIGUEL FRANCISCO ESTRADA, HAS DESCRIBED THE GOVERNMENT'S REPORT THAT ARMED FORCES ELEMENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING OF SIX UCA PRIESTS AS MOST IMPORTANT, ALTHOUGH HE ALSO NOTED THAT THE REPORT IS INCOMPLETE.
IN LIMA TODAY, UNOFFICIAL SOURCES REPORTED THAT AT LEAST 2,500 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DETAINED BY THE PERUVIAN POLICE IN RAIDS CARRIED OUT IN SEARCH OF HECTOR DELGADO PARKER, A LOCAL TELEVISION IMPRESARIO, AND HIS KIDNAPPERS.
DEFENSE MINISTER GENERAL EUGENIO VIDES CASANOVA HAS VISITED LA ALAMEDA ROOSEVELT TO OBSERVE THE VOTING PROCESS.
THE SITUATION IN THE CITY OF ROSARIO HAS WORSENED SINCE NIGHTFALL.
THE POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT THREE TERRORIST ATTACKS HERE IN BOGOTA AND IN THE CARIBBEAN PORT OF CARTAGENA LEFT TWO DEAD AND THREE INJURED.
SOME 9,000 CARABINEROS MEMBERS WILL PARTICIPATE IN A SPECIAL POLICE PLAN BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE OFFICIAL TRANSFER OF POWER CEREMONIES IN OUR COUNTRY.
BOGOTA DID NOT ESCAPE THE TERRORIST ACTIONS OF ORGANIZED CRIMINALS ON FRIDAY NIGHT.
ROBERTO SANTANA ROJAS, A MEMBER OF THE DOMINICAN COMMUNIST PARTY [PCD], HAS DIED WHILE SERVING AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLA GROUP FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN], IT WAS REPORTED TODAY.
IT WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED THAT A POLICEMAN WAS WOUNDED TODAY WHEN URBAN GUERRILLAS ATTACKED THE GUARDS AT A POWER SUBSTATION LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN SAN SALVADOR.
COLOMBIAN JUSTICE MINISTER MONICA DE GREIFF BRIEFED PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO TODAY ON HER OFFICIAL VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES TO ASK FOR HELP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING.
THE ENTIRE REBEL HOMELAND, EL SALVADOR, IS BEDECKED WITH THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT'S [FMLN] FLAGS ON A DAY OF GREAT VICTORIES FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE!
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT JOSE NAPOLEON DUARTE TONIGHT CALLED FOR SPAIN, MEXICO, VENEZUELA, AND NICARAGUA TO MEDIATE WITH THE SALVADORAN REBELS SO THEY WILL NOT BOYCOTT THE 19 MARCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
FIRE DEPARTMENT SOURCES REPORTED TODAY THAT GUATEMALAN ARMY TROOPS KILLED NINE PEASANTS BY MISTAKE ON 17 AUGUST.
MEDELLIN CONTINUES TO LIVE THROUGH A WAVE OF TERROR.
TODAY, RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS EVACUATED DOZENS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE LOCKED INSIDE "LA CENTROAMERICANA" BUILDING IN SAN SALVADOR WHERE THE COSTA RICAN EMBASSY IS LOCATED.
HONDURAN PRESIDENT JOSE AZCONA HOYO TODAY SAID THAT THE SITUATION IN EL SALVADOR HAS REACHED "ABOMINABLE AND HORRENDOUS" EXTREMES.
MSGR GREGORIO ROSA CHAVEZ, AUXILIARY BISHOP OF SAN SALVADOR, SAID TODAY THAT PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S MESSAGE REVEALING THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS REPORTEDLY INVOLVED IN THE SIX JESUITS' SLAYING REPRESENTS "A DECISIVE TURN TOWARD THE END OF IMPUNITY" IN THE COUNTRY.
AT LEAST SIX PERSONS WERE KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED WHEN A CAR BOMB EXPLODED TODAY OUTSIDE THE OFFICES OF THE SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION (FENASTRAS) IN THE HEART OF SAN SALVADOR, THE POLICE REPORTED.
OFFICIAL SOURCES ANNOUNCED THAT A U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT HERCULES C-123 CARGO PLANE WAS PARTIALLY DESTROYED EARLY THIS MORNING WHEN AN INCENDIARY BOMB EXPLODED AT THE MONTERIA AIRPORT.
ATTENTION: A REPORT FROM SAN SALVADOR STATES THAT FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE NORTHERN SECTOR OF THE CITY.
ATTENTION PLEASE, LISTENERS OF YSKL.
THE RESPECTED EL ESPECTADOR NEWSPAPER HAS REPORTED THAT COLOMBIAN JUSTICE MINISTER MONICA DE GREIFF, A KEY OFFICIAL IN THE WAR ON DRUG TRAFFICKING, HAS RESIGNED.
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO HAS PRESENTED TO THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT A PROPOSAL TO RESTRUCTURE THE SAN JOSE AGREEMENT.
A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER AND SEVEN POLICEMEN WERE KILLED TODAY IN SOUTHERN COLOMBIA WHEN GUERRILLAS DYNAMITED THE VEHICLE IN WHICH THEY WERE TRAVELLING, HUILA DEPARTMENT AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED.
AT THE END OF 1989 AND AT THE BEGINNING OF 1990, THE UNITED STATES CONDUCTED TWO MAJOR MILITARY OPERATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA, TO THE UNANIMOUS CONDEMNATION OF THE NATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR REPORTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT THE TERRORIST OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FML].
THE SIMON BOLIVAR NATIONAL COORDINATING BOARD [CNG) ASKED TODAY THAT THE DIALOGUE THE GOVERNMENT HAS ANNOUNCED THAT IT WILL HOLD WITH TWO OF THE SIX ARMED ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING IN THE COUNTRY BE HELD "WITH ALL" [ARMED GROUPS].
DIE WELT: YOUR THOUGHTS ARE FOCUSED ON CHILE, BUT LET US BRIEFLY LOOK AT EUROPE NEVERTHELESS.
THE AIR FORCE THIS AFTERNOON RESUMED ITS ATTACKS ON THE NORTHEASTERN SECTORS OF SAN SALVADOR WHERE THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] REBELS HAVE BEEN ENTRENCHED SINCE SATURDAY.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO TODAY MET WITH 8 OF THE 13 MEMBERS OF THE 19 APRIL MOVEMENT (M-19) "TEAM OF SPOKESMEN" AT THE NARINO PALACE.
ATTENTION; PAY CLOSE ATTENTION.
DEAR SALVADORAN PEOPLE, OUR REPUBLIC, OUR SOCIETY, AND OUR PEOPLE BECAME THE VICTIMS OF A MURDEROUS AND TERRORIST AGGRESSION 8 DAYS AGO.
GUERRILLA UNITS ARE FIGHTING SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT FORCES A FEW METERS FROM THEIR GENERAL BARRACKS AND IN THE CAPITAL NEIGHBORHOODS OF SAN MARTIN AND GENERAL ARCE.
FURTHERMORE, WE HAVE HAD TO STRUGGLE AGAINST MANY OF OUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN'S SKEPTICISM AND PESSIMISM.
GENERAL HECTOR GRAMAJO MORALES HAS REPORTED THAT LAST NIGHT'S TERRORIST ACTS WERE PROBABLY INTENDED TO DAMAGE GUATEMALAN AIR FORCE INSTALLATIONS, BUT ONE OF THE EXPLOSIVE DEVICES WENT OFF PREMATURELY.
THE PERUVIAN NAVY TODAY FORMALLY DENIED THAT ITS INTELLIGENCE SERVICES HAD UNCOVERED A PLOT TO ASSASSINATE WRITER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, WHO IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FAVORITE CANDIDATE TO WIN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT WILL BE HELD ON 8 APRIL.
THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS ANNOUNCED THAT SEVEN FOREIGNERS WERE ARRESTED BECAUSE THEY ARE SUSPECTED OF COLLABORATING WITH THE GANGS OF TERRORISTS THAT OPERATE IN THE CAPITAL.
THE GUATEMALAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (AEU), WHOSE TOP LEADERS WERE KIDNAPPED, MURDERED, OR HAD TO GO INTO HIDING DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS, TODAY DEMANDED THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S SOLIDARITY TO CONTAIN THE WAVE OF VIOLENCE THAT HAS SHAKEN THE COUNTRY OVER THE LAST 2 MONTHS.
COLOMBIAN OFFICIALS REPORT THAT GUERRILLAS PRESUMED TO BE MEMBERS OF THE PRO-CASTRO ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) TODAY ONCE AGAIN DYNAMITED THE CANO LIMON-COVENAS OIL PIPELINE, COLOMBIA'S MAJOR OIL PIPELINE.
THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY IN COLOMBIA HAS CONFIRMED THE RELEASE OF REDE GLOBO JOURNALIST CARLOS MARCELO WHO WAS KIDNAPPED BY COLOMBIAN ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION GUERRILLAS.
THOSE ACCUSED OF THE ASSASSINATION OF SIX JESUITS WILL HAVE A "FAIR TRIAL" AND IF FOUND GUILTY, WILL BE PUNISHED WHETHER THEY ARE CIVILIANS, MILITARY, OR INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE, SUPREME COURT PRESIDENT DR MAURICIO GUTIERREZ CASTRO SAID.
THE NATIONAL POLICE REPORTED TODAY THAT OVER 15,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN LIMA OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS IN A DRAGNET AIMED AT UNCOVERING THE ASSASSINS OF FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER ENRIQUE LOPEZ ALBUJAR TRINT, WHO WAS MURDERED IN A TERRORIST ATTACK YESTERDAY.
THE DIRECTORATE OF JUDICIAL POLICE AND INVESTIGATIONS [DIJIN] HAS DISMANTLED THE BOGOTA CARTEL FOLLOWING AN OPERATION IN WHICH 20 LUXURY HOMES WERE RAIDED IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE CITY.
SALVADORAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN HECTOR OQUELI COLINDRES WAS KIDNAPPED TODAY IN GUATEMALA CITY, HIS PARTY REPORTED IN MEXICO CITY.
THE BODIES OF HECTOR OQUELI, UNDERSECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT [MNR] OF EL SALVADOR, AND GILDA FLORES, A MEMBER OF GUATEMALA'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WERE FOUND IN CUILAPA, GUATEMALA, NEAR THE BORDER WITH EL SALVADOR, THE RELATIVES OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS HAVE REPORTED.
[ALVAREZ] IN THE ABSENCE OF NICARAGUAN AMBASSADOR FRANCISO LACAYO PARAJON, JUAN JOSE MEMBRENO, COUNSELOR TO THE NICARAGUAN EMBASSY IN HONDURAS, CHARACTERIZED AS RIDICULOUS, STATEMENTS MADE YESTERDAY BY LUIS FRANCISCO ORDONEZ REYES, WHO, ACCORDING TO POLICE, IS OF NICARAGUAN ORIGIN.
POLICE SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT AT LEAST FOUR UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS IN A CAR TODAY SHOT AT A SENTRY POST OF THE LA TABLADA 3D INFANTRY REGIMENT AND SWIFTLY FLED.
MSGR SERGIO VALECH, HEAD OF THE VICARIATE OF SOLIDARITY, HAS REPUDIATED ACTS OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED BY GROUPS OF DEMONSTRATORS IN FRONT OF THE VICARIATE OFFICES.
THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE TERRORIST ATTACKS CARRIED OUT WITH EXPLOSIVES TODAY AGAINST THE COMMITTEE OF MOTHERS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AND MISSING IN EL SALVADOR AND AGAINST THE SALVADORAN WORKERS NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION.
THE DISSEMINATION OF A DOCUMENT QUESTIONING COLOMBIA'S OIL POLICY, ESPECIALLY THE PARTICIPATION OF FOREIGN COMPANIES, IS REPORTEDLY THE AIM OF THE PUBLICITY STUNT CARRIED OUT BY THE PRO-CASTRO ELN [ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION], WHICH KIDNAPPED SEVERAL HONORARY CONSULS, NEWSMEN, AND POLITICAL LEADERS.
THE ARMED FORCES HIGH COMMAND SAID AT THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY THAT IT DOES NOT AGREE WITH VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION TO FAVOR THE FMLN PROPOSAL.
THE FMLN REPORTS TO OUR PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD THE FOLLOWING:
TODAY TWO PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED WHEN A BOMB EXPLODED IN SAN JUAN BAUTISTA MUNICIPALITY.
SALVADORAN REPORTER MAURICIO PINEDA, A SOUND TECHNICIAN FOR THE LOCAL CANAL DOCE TELEVISION STATION, WAS SHOT AND KILLED TODAY IN MORAZAN DEPARTMENT IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.
A MERCENARY GROUP FAITHFUL TO THE WARMONGERING POLICY OF FORMER SOMOZIST COLONEL ENRIQUE BERMUDEZ ATTACKED AN IFA TRUCK BELONGING TO THE INTERIOR MINISTRY AT 0900 ON 26 MARCH IN EL JICOTE, WOUNDED, KILLED AN INTERIOR MINISTRY WORKER AND WOUNDED FIVE OTHERS.
FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] URBAN COMMANDOS HAVE DENIED REPORTS THEY PARTICIPATED IN AN ATTACK ON VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT FRANCISCO MERINO'S HOME.
GUERRILLAS ATTACKED THE 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE GARRISON AND THE NATIONAL POLICE STATION IN SAN SALVADOR'S SACAMIL NEIGHBORHOOD TONIGHT.
OIL WILL NOT BE PUMPED THROUGH THE CANO LIMON-COVENAS PIPELINE AGAIN UNTIL 30 MAY, BECAUSE IT WAS AGAIN BLOWN UP TODAY NEAR URUM MUNICIPALITY, NORTE DE SANTANDER DEPARTMENT.
LA PAZ DEPARTMENT POLICE AUTHORITIES HAVE DISCLOSED THAT INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MURDER OF TWO YOUNG U.S. CITIZENS ARE BEING CONDUCTED BY A SPECIALIZED GROUP [NOT FURTHER IDENTIFIED] SUMMONED SPECIALLY TO CLARIFY THIS CRIME.
SALVADORAN VICE PRESIDENT AND INTERIOR MINISTER FRANCISCO MERINO REFERRED TO THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] DOCUMENT ISSUED HOURS AGO, WHICH DENIED ANY RESPONSIBILITY IN DR JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PORTH'S DEATH:
BLOOD IS FLOWING IN COLUMBIA, MORE ABUNDANTLY EVERY YEAR.
FOR THE SECOND TIME, UNIDENTIFIED TERRORISTS DYNAMITED THE OIL PIPELINE BETWEEN HUILA DEPARTMENT AND BARRANCABERMEJA.
SAN SALVADOR DOMESTIC SERVICE IN SPANISH AT 0202 GMT ON 21 JULY BROADCASTS A 1 HOUR AND 11 MINUTE LIVE OR RECORDED SPEECH "TO THE NATION" BY SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI ON "THE CURRENT SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY AND THE NATIONAL RECOVERY PLAN."
DANILO BARILLAS, FORMER GUATEMALAN AMBASSADOR TO SPAIN AND LEADER OF THE RULING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY [PDC], WAS KILLED TODAY BY UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS IN THIS CAPITAL, THE POLICE REPORTED.
WE HAVE REPORTS FROM THE FELICIANO AMA WESTERN FRONT AND THE ANASTASIO AQUINO PARA-CENTRAL FRONT:
TWO CRIMINAL ATTACKS, THE RESIGNATION OF THREE JUDGES, AND A 24-HOUR STRIKE BY WORKERS IN THE JUDICIAL SECTOR--THIS SUMS UP THE JUDICIAL SITUATION IN COLOMBIA OVER THE PAST 20 DAYS.
DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS, VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA HAS TAKEN SPECTACULAR TURNS.
THE ISRAELI EMBASSY IN BOGOTA TODAY CONFIRMED THAT THERE ARE ISRAELI TERRORISTS IN COLOMBIA ENGAGED IN TRAINING RIGHT-WING PARAMILITARY GROUPS THAT, ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATIONS, ARE FINANCED BY DRUG-TRAFFICKING MAFIAS.
GENERAL MIGUEL MAZA MARQUEZ, CHIEF OF THE COLOMBIAN ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY (DAS), TODAY CONFIRMED FOREIGN PARTICIPATION IN THE ASSASSINATION OF LUIS CARLOS GALAN, SENATOR AND LIBERAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, ON 18 AUGUST IN BOGOTA.
IN THE WAKE OF THE COLOMBIAN AFFAIR, SIMILAR ISRAELI ACTIVITY HAS BEEN REVEALED IN NEIGHBORING PERU AND BOLIVIA.
THIS STATION HAS LEARNED THAT THREE PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED AT THE JOSE MARIA CORDOBA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, IN THE TOWN OF RIO NEGRO, ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT.
TWO PERSONS WERE INJURED IN DYNAMITE ATTACKS PERPETRATED THIS EVENING AGAINST TWO BANK BRANCHES IN THIS NORTHWESTERN COLOMBIAN CITY.
DAS [ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY] DIRECTOR MIGUEL MAZA MARQUEZ CONFIRMED TODAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES HAD KNOWN FOR OVER 1 YEAR THAT THERE WERE MERCENARIES IN OUR COUNTRY, BUT POLICE AUTHORITIES APPARENTLY PREVENTED AN INVESTIGATION THAT HAD BEEN ORDERED, AS A MATTER OF FACT, BY A FEMALE JUDGE.
THE TOPIC ABOUT VIOLENCE AND THE PROCEDURES ADOPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO COUNTER IT WERE DISCUSSED ON 18 SEPTEMBER DURING THE INAUGURATION OF THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONAL WORLD ASSEMBLY.
AUTHORITIES HAVE OFFICIALLY REPORTED THAT SEVERAL BANK OFFICES WERE ADVERSELY AFFECTED TONIGHT IN THE CHAPINERO NEIGHBORHOOD OF NORTHERN BOGOTA WHEN TWO BOMBS EXPLODED, CAUSING MINOR INJURIES TO A CHILD AND A SECURITY GUARD.
[CARRILLO] I HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH GENERAL OCTAVIO VARGAS SILVA, NATIONAL POLICE OPERATIONAL COMMANDER AND INSPECTOR.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, SAID TODAY THAT THE OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED ON 26 SEPTEMBER BY THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT, FMLN, WAS A MISTAKEN STEP TAKEN BY THE REBELS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE DIALOGUE PROCESS WITH THE GOVERNMENT, WHICH WAS RESUMED IN MEXICO.
POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT A BOMB EXPLODED EARLY THIS MORNING IN FRONT OF THE OFFICES THAT FORMER PRESIDENT RAUL ALFONSIN HAS IN THIS CITY.
A PERUVIAN DIPLOMATIC SOURCE SAID TODAY THAT JUDGING BY PERU'S STANCE ON THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SITUATION IN THE ISTHMUS, THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT "IS UNCOMFORTABLE" WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE PANAMANIAN AMBASSADOR IN LIMA.
"THE EXTRADITABLES," THE ARMED BRANCH OF THE MEDELLIN CARTEL HAVE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MURDER OF TWO EMPLOYEES OF BOGOTA'S DAILY EL ESPECTADOR PERPETRATED TODAY IN MEDELLIN, A SOURCE FROM THAT NEWSPAPER TOLD EFE.
THE MOST PRESSING DEMANDS OF THE CHILEAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN.
GUATEMALAN ARCHBISHOP PROSPERO PENADOS DEL BARRIO TODAY REPORTED THE KIDNAPPING OF A NUN, DIANA MACK ORTIZ, 20 YEARS OLD, BORN IN THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THE GOVERNMENTS OF CHILE AND EL SALVADOR HAVE SIGNED A JOINT DECLARATION IN WHICH THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THE MARKET ECONOMY PRINCIPLES ARE THE MAIN FORCE OF DEVELOPMENT.
JUSTICE MINISTER ROBERTO SALAZAR WILL TRY TO SECURE U.S. AID TO BE USED FOR PROTECTING COLOMBIAN JUSTICES.
THE PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT TODAY DECREED A STATE OF EMERGENCY AND MILITARY CONTROL IN FOUR LIMA PROVINCES AND EXTENDED THE MEASURE IN ANOTHER FIVE.
SALVADORAN PEOPLE: GOOD MORNING.
THE SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS ASSURED TODAY THEY HAVE "CONSOLIDATED" FOUR OF THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED NEIGHBORHOODS IN NORTHERN SAN SALVADOR WHERE SOME 300,000 PERSONS LIVE.
WE HAVE A LAST MINUTE REPORT FROM SAN MIGUEL.
A HIGH-RANKING UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL IN SAN SALVADOR TODAY VOICED DISAPPROVAL REGARDING THE SUPPORT EXPRESSED BY NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA FOR THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FMLN).
TODAY, 14 NOVEMBER, NEW ATTACKS ARE TAKING PLACE AGAINST POSITIONS OF THE JOINT STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES.
THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROMOTION AND PROTECTION SECRETARIAT [SECRETARIA DE PROMOCION Y PROTECCION DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS] OF THE FMLN STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF FIVE SPANISH-BORN JESUIT PRIESTS AND THREE SALVADORAN CITIZENS CARRIED OUT BY THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES SOLDIERS.
FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] DETACHMENTS HAVE CONDUCTED THE LARGEST MILITARY OPERATION IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE SALVADORAN CONFLICT IN THE COUNTRY'S CAPITAL.
THE SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES AND SECURITY CORPS HAVE INFLICTED THE FOLLOWING CASUALTIES ON THE ENEMY: 784 DEAD, 357 WOUNDED.
APPROXIMATELY 1,000 PEOPLE DEMONSTRATED TODAY AT THE BURGOS MAIN SQUARE (CENTRAL) TO ASK THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT TO MEDIATE IN THE SALVADORAN CONFLICT, AND IN BARCELONA (NORTHEASTERN), A DEMONSTRATION TO EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE SALVADORAN PEOPLE HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR 22 NOVEMBER.
PRESIDENT VINICIO CEREZO HAS TACITLY BLAMED PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI'S ADMINISTRATION FOR THE CRISIS WHICH PREVAILS IN THE COUNTRY AS A RESULT OF THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT'S (FMLN) OFFENSIVE WHICH WAS LAUNCHED ON SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER.
THE REBEL COMMANDERS WHO DIRECTED THE OCCUPATION OF SEVERAL SAN SALVADOR NEIGHBORHOODS LAST WEEK, TODAY HEADED THE SEIZURE OF THE SHERATON HOTEL, WHERE OAS SECRETARY GENERAL JOAO BAENA SOARES WAS TRAPPED FOR MORE THAN 8 HOURS.
THE PICTURE PUBLISHED TODAY BY THE NEWSPAPER GRANMA IN ITS THIRD EDITION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
OUR FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] FORCES HAVE TAKEN OVER BUNKERS FROM THE VARIOUS MILITARY CHIEFS IN ESCALON AND MANUEL JOSE ARCE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE OUR UNITS SEIZED THOUSANDS OF CARTRIDGES, RIFLES, GRENADES, AND OTHER TYPES OF ARMS WHICH THESE MILITARY CHIEFS USUALLY STORE IN THE BUNKERS THAT THEY MAINTAIN IN THESE RESIDENTIAL SECTORS.
LA PRENSA NEWSPAPER TODAY REPORTED THAT THE SANDINISTS DID SEND A PLANE TO EL SALVADOR.
A POWERFUL BOMB HIDDEN IN A TRUCK EXPLODED OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS OF COLOMBIA'S SECRET POLICE WEDNESDAY, CAUSING SEVERE DAMAGE, BOGOTA MAYOR ANDRES PASTRANA SAID.
THE TREASURY POLICE HAVE INFORMED THIS NETWORK THAT TERRORIST [WORDS INDISTINCT] ALBERTO CHICA FERNANDEZ, A LEADER IN THE [NAME INDISTINCT] LABOR UNION, CONFESSED THAT THE FMLN [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT] TERRORIST LEADERS MAY INITIATE SUMMARY ACTIONS WITH A VIEW TO PURGING THE LEADERS OF LEFTIST GROUPS BECAUSE OF THE FAILURE OF THE SO-CALLED "FINAL OFFENSIVE TO THE END."
COMRADES: A NEW ELEMENT THAT WE MUST ANALYZE AND EXPLAIN EMERGED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS' EMERGENCY MEETING.
IN VIEW OF THE SUCCESSFUL OPERATION TODAY IN WHICH GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, HIS SON FREDDY, AND SEVERAL OF HIS BODYGUARDS WERE KILLED, PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO TODAY CALLED AN URGENT COUNCIL OF MINISTERS MEETING TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION AND RECEIVE A FULL REPORT FROM MILITARY AND POLICE AUTHORITIES.
FOREIGN MINISTER HERNAN FELIPE ERRAZURIZ HAS REPORTED THAT THE CHILEANS INVOLVED IN THE ABDUCTION OF BRAZILIAN BUSINESSMAN ABILIO DINIZ WILL BE PROSECUTED IN BRAZIL BECAUSE THE KIDNAPPING WAS PLANNED AND PERFORMED OUTSIDE OF CHILE.
ACCORDING TO A COMMUNIQUE GIVEN TO AFP, THE INTERNATIONAL REBEL ORGANIZATION, THE AMERICA BATTALION, WILL "CONTINUE ITS CONTINENTAL STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND LATIN AMERICAN DIGNITY."
OFFICIAL SOURCES TODAY REPORTED THAT AT LEAST EIGHT PEOPLE, INCLUDING SOLDIERS, REBELS, AND CIVILIANS, WERE KILLED DURING CLASHES BETWEEN THE ARMY AND GUERRILLAS OVER THE PAST WEEKEND IN VARIOUS POINTS OF THE COUNTRY.
THE COLOMBIAN LEFTIST ALLIANCE, PATRIOTIC UNION (UP), WAS THE FIRST PARTY TO REGISTER A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE UPCOMING 27 MAY ELECTIONS WHEN IT OFFICIALLY REGISTERED BERNARDO JARAMILLO OSSA, 34, AS ITS CANDIDATE TODAY.
CONCERNING THE PROSPECTS FOR THE DIALOGUE - NEGOTIATION BASED ON THE MEDIATION OF UN SECRETARY GENERAL JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR AND THE DEBATE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS ON THE AID TO EL SALVADOR, THE FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT [FMLN] REPORTS:
IT WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT SIX SALVADORAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AS A RESULT OF CLASHES WITH SALVADORAN REBELS IN NORTHERN EL SALVADOR OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS.
SMARTLY DRESSED AND SPEAKING IN NEARLY PERFECT ENGLISH, SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI HAS AGAIN VISITED THE UNITED STATES, WHERE HE TRIED TO APPEAR AT THE CONGRESS AND THE UNITED NATIONS AS A STATESMAN AWARE OF HIS RIGHTS.
CALM APPEARS TO BE RETURNING TO THE COUNTRY FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF ONE NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER AND SIX SOLDIERS ON 23 FEBRUARY AS A RESULT OF GUERRILLA ATTACKS IN FIVE ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT MUNICIPALITIES, THE KIDNAPPING OF A MAYOR, A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, AND A CANDIDATE IN CAUCA DEPARTMENT, AND THE DEATH OF A GUERRILLA IN GUAVIARE.
THE PANAMANIAN GOVERNMENT IS PREPARED TO FACE A RUPTURE OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH MEXICO AND PERU TO ENFORCE THE LAW, FOREIGN MINISTER DR. JULIO E. LINARES ASSERTED WHEN REFERRING TO FORMER COLLABORATORS OF FORMER GENERAL NORIEGA WHO SOUGHT SHELTER IN THESE EMBASSIES SEVERAL WEEKS AGO.
GOOD EVENING, A COMMUNIQUE HAS JUST BEEN ISSUED AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
FMLN-FDR [FARABUNDO MARTI NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT-REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT] TERRORIST GROUPS HAVE CONTINUED THEIR TREACHEROUS ATTACKS AGAINST CIVILIANS AND POLICE OFFICERS IN THE CAPITAL AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRYSIDE, OPENLY IGNORING THE AGREEMENTS REACHED BY THEIR LEADERS WITH A GOVERNMENT DELEGATION IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.
FOLLOWING IS A COMPILATION OF REPORTS ON DRUG SEIZURES AND ARRESTS RELATED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING IN BUREAU COVERAGE AREA FROM 15 TO 21 APRIL.
GOOD AFTERNOON, WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A STATEMENT ISSUED BY PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS CONCERNING THE MURDER OF MR. CARLOS PIZARRO LEONGOMEZ.
GUERRILLA GROUPS HAVE REPORTED 185 SALVADORAN ARMED FORCES CASUALTIES DURING CLASHES WHICH OCCURRED IN THE LAST FEW HOURS IN SIX OF THE COUNTRY'S 14 DEPARTMENTS, BUT THE ARMY CLAIMS THAT IT ONLY SUSTAINED 48 CASUALTIES IN THOSE CLASHES.
SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI STATED TODAY THAT IT WOULD BE NO PROBLEM FOR THE FOURTH PENAL JUDGE, WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE CASE OF THE JESUITS MURDERED BY A GROUP OF SOLDIERS, TO ORDER THAT CADETS WHO ARE TAKING COURSES ABROAD RETURN TO THE COUNTRY.
OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE REPORTED BLACKOUTS IN MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF GUERRILLAS SABOTAGING THE ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM DURING THE NIGHT OF 31 MAY AND THE MORNING OF 1 JUNE.
CAUHTEMOC CARDENAS, NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR THE PARTY OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION (PRD), SAID DURING A NEWS CONFERENCE ON 7 JUNE THAT THE VISIT TO MEXICO BY SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ALFREDO CRISTIANI IS A VISIT BY "A REPRESSIVE RULER WHO OPPRESSES A LARGE SECTOR OF HIS PEOPLE."
POLICE SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUALS PLANTED A BOMB IN FRONT OF A MORMON CHURCH IN TALCAHUANO DISTRICT.
TODAY PERUVIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS ESTABLISHED A CURFEW IN TINGO MARIA BECAUSE OF THE STRIKE BY PEASANTS AND COCA GROWERS TO PROTEST THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR COCA FIELDS.
THE MILITARY COURT UPHELD THE INDICTMENT OF FELIPE SANDOVAL, YOUTH SECTOR PRESIDENT OF THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WHO WAS TRIED FOR OFFENDING CARABINEROS.
AMINTA PLATERO WAS KILLED WHEN HER CAR WAS HIT BY ANOTHER CAR DRIVEN BY FORMER DEPUTY PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER RINALDO GOLCHER.
A CORPORAL AND A GUERRILLA HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE MOST RECENT CLASHES BETWEEN THE ARMY AND THE FMLN.
OPPOSITION SECTORS AND EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS ARE PREPARING FOR VIOLENT ACTIONS, INCLUDING BOMBINGS AND ATTACKS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, FOR 30 AUGUST WHEN THE NAME OF THE PLEBISCITE CANDIDATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED.
RANCAGUA -- THE NATIONAL VANGUARD OFFICES IN THIS CITY WERE ATTACKED ON 29 JULY AT 2220.
DEAR MR PRESIDENT:
TODAY LUIS CACERES, UCR SECRETARY GENERAL AND A NATIONAL DEPUTY, PROMISED CHILEAN RADICAL PARTY [PR] LEADER RICARDO NAVARRETE THAT A DELEGATION OF UCR LEADERS WILL BE SENT TO OBSERVE THE PLEBISCITE THAT WILL DECIDE CHILE'S INSTITUTIONAL FUTURE IN EARLY OCTOBER 1988.
BOGOTA INRAVISION TELEVISION CADENA 1 IN SPANISH AT 1730 GMT ON 1 SEPTEMBER BROADCASTS APPROXIMATELY 3 MINUTES OF REPORTS BY NATIONAL POLICE DIRECTOR GENERAL JOSE GUILLERMO MEDINA SANCHEZ, WHO CONFIRMS THAT 15 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED "TUESDAY NIGHT" IN EL TOMATE, CANALETES MUNICIPALITY, CORDOBA DEPARTMENT, BY A GANG "POSSIBLY BELONGING TO THE POPULAR LIBERATION ARMY."
IN RECENT MILITARY OPERATIONS, ARMED FORCES UNITS KILLED ONE REBEL, SEIZED 45,000 CARTRIDGES AND OTHER WAR MATERIEL, AND DESTROYED AN UNDERGROUND HIDEOUT.
INTERIOR, MIGRATION, AND JUSTICE MINISTER JUAN CARLOS DURAN HAS SAID THAT SINCE 1985 PRESIDENT VICTOR PAZ ESTENSSORO'S ADMINISTRATION MADE GREAT PROGRESS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOLIVIAN SOCIETY.
THREE NEW TERRORIST ATTACKS WERE CARRIED OUT EARLY THIS MORNING, AT AN AIRPORT IN BARRANQUILLA, AT THE COMMUNIST PARTY HEADQUARTERS IN FLORENCIA, AND AT THE CERRO AZUL MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN URABA.
LAST NIGHT IN SAN CLEMENTE DISTRICT, 9 KM NORTH OF PISCO, A GROUP OF TERRORISTS DYNAMITED MACHINERY BELONGING TO ALBOLONES PERUANOS, INC.
TWO SOLDIERS AND A REBEL WERE KILLED IN SKIRMISHES AROUND THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST FEW HOURS.
FIFTEEN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED TODAY IN COLOMBIA DURING AN AMBUSH BY FARC COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS IN CAQUETA'S SOUTHERN JUNGLES, MILITARY SOURCES REPORTED FROM FLORENCIA, THE CAPITAL IN THAT AREA OF THE COUNTRY.
THE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED JUAN ANTONIO LEON MONTERO, AKA COMRADE JOSE, WHO IS REGARDED AS AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF A TERRORIST COLUMN THAT CONDUCTED ATTACKS IN THE SAN MARTIN JUNGLE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF TERRORIST VICTOR POLAY CAMPOS, AKA COMRADE ROLANDO.
A TERRORIST ATTACK, IN WHICH CZECHOSLOVAK BOMBS WERE USED, HAS DESTROYED FOUR HIGH TENSION TOWERS IN THE CENTRAL REGION.
TERRORISTS OF THE MAOIST SHINING PATH GROUP DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS KILLED A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, A POLICEMAN, AND A PEDESTRIAN, WHILE THE POLICE AUTHORITIES REPORTED TODAY THAT AN ARMED ATTACK AGAINST THE U.S. EMBASSY IN LIMA HAS BEEN FRUSTRATED.
PERSONNEL OF THE COPIAPO INVESTIGATIONS DEPARTMENT HAVE ARRESTED FOUR TERRORISTS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN SEVERAL ACTIONS DESIGNED TO DISRUPT PUBLIC ORDER IN THE ATACAMA REGION.
AN EXPLOSION HAS DESTROYED A SECTION OF THE MULTIPURPOSE PIPELINE RUNNING FROM BARRANCABERMEJA TO BUCARAMANGA.
SECURITY FORCES HAVE DETAINED THREE MORE ALLEGED TERRORISTS IN COPIAPO ON CHARGES OF CONDUCTING TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN THE REGION.
IT WAS DISCLOSED IN THIS CAPITAL TODAY THAT A BOMB EXPLODED AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE HOME OF A PERUVIAN ARMY GENERAL, CAUSING DAMAGES BUT NO CASUALTIES.
BELIZE'S STATE RADIO ON THURSDAY REPORTED THAT A GUATEMALAN GUNBOAT FIRED AT A BRITISH NAVAL VESSEL THAT HAS BEEN CONDUCTING A SURVEY IN BELIZE'S WATERS.
THE POLITICAL-MILITARY COMMAND HAS ISSUED A COMMUNIQUE REPORTING THAT THREE TERRORISTS HAVE DIED AND FOUR WERE ARRESTED IN AN ARMED CLASH BETWEEN AN ARMY PATROL AND A TERRORIST COLUMN.
HONDURAN MILITARY SOURCES YESTERDAY REPORTED THAT SEVERAL TIMES IN SEPTEMBER, EPS SOLDIERS ENTERED HONDURAN TERRITORY AND HARASSED THE 6TH INFANTRY BATTALION OBSERVATION POST IN EL PITAL, CIFUENTES, EL PARAISO DEPARTMENT.
THE LEFTIST NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY (ELN) KIDNAPPED TWO SOLDIERS IN NORTHERN COLOMBIA IN THE PAST FEW HOURS.
ACCORDING TO MILITARY SOURCES, A BLOODY GUERRRILLA OFFENSIVE TODAY LEFT 35 GUERRILLAS AND 5 SOLDIERS DEAD, 6 CIVILIANS WOUNDED, AND 5 BRIDGES PARTIALLY DESTROYED.
THE MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PATRIOTIC FRONT (FPMR) WILL DEVELOP A NEW FORM OF STRUGGLE CALLED THE "NATIONAL PATRIOTIC WAR," "WHICH WILL START AT ANY MOMENT."
IN ANOTHER ACT OF VIOLENCE, 18 PEOPLE WERE KILLED NEAR CANASGORDAS IN ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA TODAY RELEASED A PROVISIONAL REPORT ON THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY HURRICANE JOAN AND ANNOUNCED AN "IMMINENT CONTRA" ATTACK AGAINST NICARAGUA.
THE SECOND MEETING OF THE SO-CALLED GROUP OF EIGHT CONCLUDED TODAY IN PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY.
[GOMEZ] PRESIDENT JOSE NAPOLEON DUARTE CALLED ON THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL PARTIES THAT WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS TO PROTECT THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND THE REPUBLIC.
AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IN BERLIN ON FRIDAY [4 NOVEMBER], VOLODIA TEITELBOIM, MEMBER OF THE POLITICAL COMMISSION AND SECRETARIAT OF THE PCCH CENTRAL COMMITTEE, GAVE A REPORT ON THE SITUATION IN CHILE FOLLOWING THE REFERENDUM.
THE MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT [MIR] HAS DECIDED THAT IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS IT WILL CARRY OUT "A STRUGGLE OF THE MASSES" TO DESTABILIZE THE MILITARY REGIME BY "ALL FORMS OF STRUGGLE."
GOVERNMENT MINISTER ANDRES VALLEJO YESTERDAY AGAIN DENIED THE CLAIM OF COMMANDERS JOAQUIN AND JAVIER OF THE ALFARO LIVES DAMMIT SUBVERSIVE GROUP THAT THEY HAVE MET WITH HIM.
SIX GUERRILLAS OF A STILL UNIDENTIFIED GROUP DIED TODAY IN A SKIRMISH WITH ARMY TROOPS IN MORELIA, CAQUETA DEPARTMENT.
MEMBERS OF THE BOMB SQUAD HAVE DEACTIVATED A POWERFUL BOMB PLANTED AT THE ANDRES AVELINO CACERES PARK, WHERE PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA WAS DUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF TARAPACA.
IN VENEZUELA, AUTOPSIES HAVE BEEN PERFORMED ON 9 OF THE 14 FISHERMEN--INCLUDING 2 COLOMBIANS--KILLED IN EL AMPARO.
COLONEL MAURICIO ERNESTO VARGAS, COMMANDER OF THE ARMY'S 3D BRIGADE IN SAN MIGUEL, HAS STATED THAT THE ARMED FORCES IS NOT INVOLVED IN DEATH SQUAD ACTIONS AND THAT SUCH ACTIONS ARE CONTRARY TO THE INSTITUTION'S REGULATIONS.
TWENTY-SIX PEOPLE, FOUR OF WHOM ARE POLICEMEN, WERE INJURED IN A BOMB EXPLOSION THAT OCCURRED BEFORE DAWN ON 30 OCTOBER.
BARRANQUILLA -- A 45 PERCENT CUT IN AVAILABLE ELECTRIC POWER IS CURRENTLY IN EFFECT ALONG THE ENTIRE COLOMBIAN ATLANTIC COAST.
EEC AND ANDEAN GROUP OFFICIALS HAVE HELD MEETINGS AT THE CARTAGENA AGREEMENT BOARD HEADQUARTERS TO PROGRAM ACTIVITIES AIMED AT INCREASING TRADE TIES BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS.
A SHOOTOUT HAS BEEN REPORTED BETWEEN A GROUP OF GUERRILLAS AND JOINT ANTITERRORIST FORCES IN A MOUNTAINOUS REGION NEAR SAN FERNANDO.
THE ARMED FORCES HAVE REPORTED THAT TWO SOLDIERS AND ONE GUERRILLA WERE KILLED YESTERDAY IN FIGHTING IN SAN MIGUEL AND MORAZAN DEPARTMENTS.
THE FIVE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE DETAINED IN THE MOUNTAINOUS REGION OF COCOAN AND ARE ACCUSED OF BELONGING TO THE MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PATRIOTIC FRONT [FPMR] TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ARE BEING HELD INCOMMUNICADO AT THE SOCIAL REHABILITATION CENTER.
LUZ LEON, PATRIOTIC UNION (UP) COUNCILWOMAN FOR META DEPARTMENT, WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED TODAY DURING AN ATTACK IN VILLAVICENCIO IN WHICH HER HUSBAND, PARMENIDES CUENCA, WAS KILLED.
CARABINEROS HAVE FOUND FOUR PACKETS CONTAINING EXPLOSIVES AT THE FOOT OF HIGH TENSION ELECTRIC TOWER NO 657 OF THE COLBUN-MACHICURA LINE.
THE LOCAL POLICE HAVE REPORTED THAT NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY (ELN) GUERRILLAS TODAY KIDNAPPED THE ANTIOQUIA COLOMBIAN CIVIL DEFENSE (DCC) COMMANDER.
LEGISLATIVE SOURCES REPORTED IN LIMA TODAY THAT THE PERUVIAN CONGRESS HAS APPROVED A BILL ESTABLISHING MORE SEVERE PENALTIES FOR TERRORISTS AND ALSO ESTABLISHING PUNISHMENTS FOR THE SUPPORT OF TERRORIST ACTS.
A NEW DIPLOMATIC RIFT HAS ARISEN BETWEEN COLOMBIA AND THE NEIGHBORING REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA FOLLOWING A PROTEST NOTE SENT BY OUR FOREIGN MINISTRY TO THE VENEZUELAN FOREIGN MINISTRY.
COLONEL RENE EMILIO PONCE [CHAIRMAN OF THE SALVADORAN JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF] APPEARED BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY TODAY.
PRESUMED SHINING PATH MAOIST EXTREMISTS AMBUSHED AND KILLED 68 PEASANTS IN THE LOCALITY OF BALCON, 200 KM NORTH OF THE SOUTHERN CITY OF AYACUCHO.
THE ARMY HAS REPORTED THAT IT INFLICTED 208 GUERRILLA CASUALTIES DURING CLASHES IN NOVEMBER.
[MARTINEZ] THERE IS A SUBJECT OF INTEREST TO RADIO HAVANA LISTENERS: THE URNG'S HUMANIZATION OF THE WAR POLICY.
THE COMMANDER OF MILITARY DETACHMENT NO 4 TODAY REPORTED TODAY THE DISCOVERY OF 22 DEAD GUERRILLAS IN MORAZAN DEPARTMENT.
LA REPUBLICA IN SPANISH IN ITS 7 DECEMBER EDITION CARRIES ON PAGES 1 AND 13 A UPI REPORT WITH A WASHINGTON, 6 DECEMBER DATELINE ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN THE PAST YEAR.
TODAY A 9-YEAR-OLD STUDENT LOST HIS LEFT HAND AS A RESULT OF THE SERIOUS INJURIES HE SUSTAINED AFTER HE PICKED UP A BOMB THAT WAS HIDDEN AMONG SOME GARBAGE BAGS NEAR HIS SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF COPIAPO.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ACCEPT MEDIATORS IN A DIALOGUE WITH THE GUERRILLAS, PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER RAFAEL PARDO RUEDA HAS SAID.
WITH THE MURDER OF TWO MORE ENGINEERS LAST WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER--WHICH WAS LEARNED ABOUT ONLY TODAY IN LIMA--A TOTAL OF SIX ENGINEERS HAVE BEEN MURDERED THIS WEEK APPARENTLY BY MEMBERS OF THE MAOIST SHINING PATH GUERRILLA MOVEMENT.
IT WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT MAYOR HECTOR AREVALO OF THE RULING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY [PDC], WHO WAS ELECTED MAYOR IN A TOWN IN SAN VICENTE DEPARTMENT LAST MARCH, RESIGNED BECAUSE OF DEATH THREATS FROM SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS.
GOVERNMENT SOURCES HAVE REPORTED THAT FOUR UNIDENTIFIED CIVILIANS CARRYING LARGE-CALIBER FIREARMS KIDNAPPED ALBERTO CELIS SANCHEZ, MAYOR OF EL CARMEN DE ATRATO, ON 8 DECEMBER AT EL DOCE ON THE QUIBDO-MEDELLIN HIGHWAY.
FOUR ALLEGED TERRORISTS, ALL WEARING SKI MASKS, MURDERED MAYOR ALFREDO CHAMORRO IN THE SMALL TOWN OF PALLANCHACRA.
SANTA ANA -- [FMLN] URBAN GUERRILLAS OPERATING IN SANTA ANA HAVE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MURDER OF ROSA IMELDA GONZALEZ MEDRANO, A PROFESSOR AT THE WESTERN CAMPUS OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
MILITARY SOURCES TODAY REPORTED THAT THREE CHILEAN ARMY OFFICERS, ONE OF THEM THE COMMANDER OF A REGIMENT, HAVE DIED IN A HELICOPTER ACCIDENT DURING A PATROL OPERATION.
EARLY IN THE MORNING OF 21 DECEMBER FMLN REBELS RAIDED SAN JOSE VILLANUEVA, SOUTH OF SAN SALVADOR, LA LIBERTAD DEPARTMENT, WHERE THEY SET FIRE TO THE ANTEL [NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS] OFFICE AND DESTROYED THE LOCAL GARRISON.
IN THE LAST FEW DAYS OF THIS YEAR, THE NATION HAS BEEN DISCUSSING PEACE IN A WAY SELDOM HEARD OF BEFORE.
THE PERUVIAN GOVERNING PARTY, APRA, TODAY ENDED A CONFLICTIVE PARTY CONGRESS ON A NOTE OF DEFEAT FOR PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA, AND WITH THE EMERGENCE OF FORMER PRIME MINISTER LUIS ALVA CASTRO AS NEW PARTY LEADER.
SAO PAULO FEDERAL POLICE HAVE SEIZED TWO DRUG TRAFFICKERS CARRYING 160 KILOGRAMS OF COCAINE.
THIS MORNING, THREE BOMBS DESTROYED A CHECKPOINT THAT WAS BEING BUILT IN SANTA FE, ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT, AT A PLACE KNOWN AS PASEO REAL.
NATIONAL POLICE DIRECTOR COLONEL CARLOS MAURICIO GUZMAN AGUILAR ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT EIGHT GUERRILLAS, MEMBERS OF THE FMLN URBAN COMMAND UNITS, ARE BEING HELD BY THE NATIONAL POLICE.
THE TERRORIST MANUEL RODRIGUEZ PATRIOTIC FRONT [FPMR] IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF ITS OFFICIAL PUBLICATION HAS REPORTED ON THE FAILURE LAST MAY OF ITS OPERATION AIMED AT MURDERING MILITARY JUDGE FERNANDO TORRES SILVA.