Salvadoran officials and rebels continued peace talks in Venezuela after guerrillas announced they would keep fighting until the United States suspends aid to the conservative government.
"We are prepared for a cease-fire that will only be possible if the United States understands that the moment has come to suspend all aid, logistics and military advisers for the war," rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, said over their clandestine radio station.The United States has spent $1 billion to back the Salvadoran government in a war that has claimed an estimated 75,000 lives.