The World - News from Oct. 9, 1989
Ending a seven-week odyssey, 48 wounded Salvadoran rebels arrived in Havana to receive medical treatment, the official Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said. The rebels had moved into the Mexican Embassy in San Salvador last Tuesday after a 43-day occupation of the capital’s Metropolitan Cathedral. The occupation was begun Aug. 20 by eight wounded rebels, and their numbers gradually multiplied. The guerrillas requested political asylum from the Mexican government after rejecting a temporary amnesty offered by Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani.
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