The Options to Negotiate
At the beginning of the week, government officials were working feverishly to find a house near the Japanese ambassador's residence that could be used as a meeting place between the government's unofficial interlocutor, Domingo Palermo, MRTA leader Néstor Cerpa, and the Guarantors Commission. The preparations augured a happy ending, which, letting one's imagination run, could eventually conclude with the MRTA being integrated into democracy. Published January 23, 1997.