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Article: Back to the future in El Salvador: right-wing extremists use old terrorist ways. (attacks against Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 21, 1994
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Nidia Diaz, nee Maria Valladares, scouts out an empty office in the bustling quarters of the San Salvador think tank she heads. The garage has been converted into a training center for poll watchers, where recruits from the countryside sleep. Although she is a politician now, Valladares is still better known as Nidia, her nom de guerre as a rebel comandante in El Salvador's 12-year civil war.
She returned to San Salvador in January 1992, after the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front rebels signed a peace accord. "People would come up to me in the street," she recalls. "To them, I was a curiosity." She was captured with rebel battle plans by the Salvadoran ...