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El Salvador: Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks El Salvador: Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks
Date: 9/8/1989Call Number: JG/ 036AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks on the 9/7/'89 announcement that the FMLN wants to sit down with ARENA Pres. Cristiani for peace negotiations. Judy Gerber reads a NACLA interview w/ ARENA Colonel Juan Zapata, Zapata in ARENA's vice minister of defense, he defines the FMLN as terrorists.
El Salvador in Focus El Salvador in Focus
Date: 2/4/1990Call Number: LA 102Format: CassetteCollection: El Salvador
Headlines on current events in Christiani government including political dismissals, international image, UN visit, and refusal to participate in mediation with FMLN. Interview of Oscar Chacon, the Central America Program Coordinator of Oxfam America on the government’s unjustified attacks on civilian organizations labeled “fronts for the FMLN”.
El Salvador in Focus El Salvador in Focus
Date: 10/28/1989Call Number: LA 119AFormat: Cass AProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
More allegations arise implicating the El Salvador military and their direct involvement with the Death Squads torturing, executing, and terrorizing the civilian population. Members of the military and the national police have been repeatedly identified as active in the Death Squads. A deserter from the First Infantry Brigade and former Death Squad member testifies that high ranking military officials and U.S. advisors directly support Death Squad activity. Students at the National University are targeted. Sixteen hundred refugees begin a long march home from Honduras. Refugee and repatriation leaders are captured by the El Salvador military on their way to the border and their whereabouts are unknown. In San Jose, Costa Rica, peace talks between the FMLN and the Christiani government end with no resolution.
FMLN and El Salvador government peace settlement FMLN and El Salvador government peace settlement
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: JG/ 090Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Gladis Sibrion, representative of the FMLN, regarding the New Year’s peace settlement between the FMLN and government of El Salvador. Sibrion sees the settlement as a victory for all Salvadorans because it represents the defeat of military control over civilian life. She outlines the major points of the settlement presented by the FMLN: cleansing of the military, establishing a new civilian police including FMLN representatives, dismantling civilian defense forces, reforming the judicial system, and establishing human rights oversight. Sibrion believes that while the U.S. wants to end the Salvadoran conflict, it also wants to retain a strong presence, which she believes requires a weakening of the FMLN. She notes mixed popular reaction to the settlement by the Salvadoran people - both of optimism and skepticism.