Peace is rebels’ top priority
Salvadoran speaker contends
By Paul Ertelt
Of the Kmerald
Pres. Ronald Reagan’s policy
of pursuing a military solution
in El Salvador may thwart ef
forts for a negotiated settlement
to the five-year-old civil war, a
representative of the Salvadoran
rebels said Thursday.
Felix Kury, of the Democratic
Revolutionary Front (FDR),
talked about the possibility of
peace in the region, in the EMU
Felix Kury
Forum Room. The FDR. the
rebels political wing, is allied
•with'the Farabundo Marti Front
for National Liberation (FMLN).
the guerrilla force which is
fighting the IJ.S.-backed
Salvadoran army.
The rebels met Monday with
Salvadoran Pres. Jose Napoleon
Duarte to talk about ways of en
ding the. war that has taken an
estimated 50,000 lives. Though
the talks were “the first con
crete steps in the right direc
tion,” Kury said, adding that
the country is a long way from
peace.
Duarte, who took office June
1, is not in control of the coun
try’s military, Kury said, and
there is a danger of a right-wing
coup that would end the
possibility of a negotiated
settlement.
“We have had many coups
d’etat in our history,”
he said. “This could
also be a prelude for
U.S. intervention in
the area with the ex
cuse of bringing Duarte
back into power.”
Kury defended the
29 demands the rebels
released at Monday’s
meeting.
“We’re asking for
$4.80 per day for the
workers who work in
the coffee planta
tions,” he said. /‘I
don’t think that’s so
much to ask.”
Workers now receive
about $3 per day. he
said. Other demands
include lower con
sumer prices,' the right
of workers to strike,
revival of agrarian
reform and the
withdrawal of U.S.
military advisers.
Peace is the most im
portant demand of the.
Salvadoran people,
• kury said, but that must be
“peace with liberty, peace with
dignity and peace with
freedom.”
Kury also said that Reagan
can take no credit for bringing
about the negotiations. Instead,
credit should go to the
Salvadoran people, he said.
When asked about his opi
nion of the upcoming U.S.
presidential elections, he said
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he was not here to “interfere”
in this country’s politics.
“But probably a Democratic
administration would be more
favorable to negotiations than a
Republican administration,” he
said.
Kury said the rebels have
“won the hearts and minds of
the Salvadoran people,” and
have built schools and hospitals
in areas they control “with no
help from the outside.”
“The other side has received
millions of dollars and does not
have a single hospital, does not
have a single school, to show
for the aid,” he said.
Kury said he is hopeful about
peace prospects despite his
reservations.
“I don’t think we will achieve
peace in the next few weeks, but
at least both sides are talking.”
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