The World - News from Sept. 20, 1988

Bus service in El Salvador came to a virtual standstill after leftist rebels called for a nationwide transportation ban and threatened drivers who took to the roads. Despite assurances from the military that transportation would be protected, a vast majority of bus and truck drivers chose to park their vehicles. Only a handful of buses, the main means of mass transit, circulated in the capital of San Salvador, a city of 1 million.