But in 1992 the violence subsided. Lorena Martinez remains a member of the executive committee of FMLN, but she has gone back to her work organizing rural communities around issues of health, education, and the place of women. But now something ominous is happening in El Salvador, she said. America's war on communism has been replaced by the war on drugs. Focused on Colombia, to which President Clinton traveled in August to trumpet his plan, the massive new military initiative is spilling quickly into the surrounding countries.
New chaos threatens the region.
Governments of Guatemala and Honduras have once again entered into partnerships with the United States for military training and operations. It is not as if we miss it. But a foreign war promises to be even more disastrous. People like Lorena Martinez hear a familiar chord being struck, despite President Clinton's assurance. We are in a crisis of poverty.