The Ghosts Of El Salvador -- A Commentary

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A November Surprise In El Salvador?
-- Washington Times

Geovani Galeas and Berne Ayala at first appear to be two engaging men totally outside the journalism and political sectors.

Nevertheless, Messrs.Galeas and Ayala are clearly committed to a project which, among other results, bids fair to be a decisive factor in El Salvador's elections, due in January and March. They discussed their daunting project with me recently in the country's capital, San Salvador, over mojitos, rum and plates of finger food.

First, their backgrounds. From 1978 to 1993, Geovani Galeas, alias "Juancito," was a dedicated, militant radical socialist guerrilla in the ERP (People's Revolutionary Army), predecessor to the FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front). Ernesto Ayala, known to this day by his guerrilla alias "Berne," was a committed (and seriously wounded) communist guerrilla from 1982 to the end of the civil war in 1992.

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My Comment: This will be distasteful .... but necessary. The Salvadorians must reconcile with their history.