Intel Salvador
Socialist Press1981 1981-01-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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= Océano Pacífico: Ugulutăn HOMBURAS MORAZAN! UNION • San Vicente Zacatecoluca San Miguel Last week's final offensive' by the combined forces of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front finally brought the Salvadorean civil war to the front pages of the bourgeois press and puts the taking of power by the revolutionary forces on the agenda. Within three days Washington had denounced Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan intervention, reviewed arms supplies (including six helicopter gunships) and increased the number of military 'advisers"-all in the name of "protecting human rights" Oi, as President Jose Napoleon Duarte would it, 'exporting demara?
Ramificztoas
The fighting is taking pizz on a national scale, in semiformal encounters, and its political ramifications abroad are already substantial.
The timing of the offensive had long been common-knowledge since the Frente Democratico Revolucionario; the coalition of political forces in opposition, had openly declared that it wanted to present Reagan with a 'fait accompli"
Build-up
The buildup of forces, particularly along the inaccessible border with Honduras, had been taking place for several weeks, and there can be little doubt that the guerrillas. have been receiving steady supplies of modern weapons.
Two earlier probing attacks one in Morazan province in November and the other in the south of Chalaltenango after Castes it i basis for the I DE: IT ¿i Santa Ana rebetter to join the rebels.
Moreover, an advance attack on the major military airport of Ilopongo neutralised the vital Cont'd page