Salvador Rebels Renew Attacks on Eve of Talks
Guerrilla attacks have blacked out 45% of El Salvador on the eve of renewed peace talks between the right-wing government and its leftist foes, utility officials reported Thursday.
Representatives of the government of President Alfredo Cristiani and the rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front are to meet today in Costa Rica for a fourth round of talks aimed at a possible September cease-fire.
The peace talks are expected to focus on rebel demands that the size of the armed forces, estimated at 54,000 members, be reduced and that officers guilty of severe human rights violations be purged.
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