when British businessmen are kidnapped. What exists is a. COLLLT 4.5 stretching over 21,000 square kilometres. Over 50 per cent of the illiterate; average life expectancy is 54 and rural unemployment is over 52 per cent. The country is ruled by 14 families who own the country's coffee, cotton, maiże, sugar and rice and sell it -to the USA and Western Europe.
Ine army controls the President, Ge. Romero, is a butcher in the Somoza mould. A few months ago Western TV YItWels saw army demonstrators on the Cathedral steps of San Salvador and killing 23 people.
The Sandinista victory will be seen by the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (PRB) as a big leap forward for their own struggle. The PRB is very Sililar (a politics and FSLN in Nicaragua. The Salvador CP is well entrenched in the organised labour movement in the towns.
With the fall of Somoza it is El Salvador that becomes the weak link of imperialism in WITHIN the new government and base of the local committees there are iwo main tendencies, the Group of 12 and the Terceristas (the main FSLN They will argue for the strike protest the National Palace WIn release of the FSLN take Esteli and then lose it with US aporovai lend Somoza . somoza says wnal nappenec to New oftensive by the FSLN in the La provisiona people population is countrv and the shooting down composition) to the