A month later, during the second week of March, the “Emergency Alert” maneuvers were announced. They were publicly justified as the means to control any actions the FMLN might carry out against the Salvadoran elections on March 25, even though the FMLN had announced that, while the war continued, it would not sabotage the elections.
Un mes después -segunda semana de marzo- se anuncia la realización de las maniobras "Alerta-Emergencia", justificadas públicamente como el medio para controlar cualquier posible acción del FMLN en vísperas de elecciones -si bien el FMLN, había anunciado públicamente que no boicotearía las elecciones, aunque continuaría la guerra-.