The following is a letter sent by the tional Liberation Front (FMLN) of El Salvador to President Ronald Reagan on January 18 The translation is by Intercontinental Press Mr President:
We have read with care your yearend message to the American people in which you refer to efforts toward world peace, and more specifically to the fact that our hearts are anguished for those who suffer oppression' and that "Americans begin the year with a renewed commitment to our ideals and with the determination that peace will have to be preserved and that freedom for all men will prevail.
We would like to point out to you, Mr President, that we Salvadorans have suffered centuries of oppression and are suffering right now from repression by a military dictatorship that has been in power, without interruption, for more than 50 years. Our struggle is against that dictatorship.
If your heart is anguished by op pression, we cannot see why it is precisely your administration that has become the principal support of the military/Christian Democracy regime Far from aiding our people's con quest of freedom, your administra tion has chosen to support a government that is responsible for more than 30,000 deaths in the short period of two years.
TODAY in El Salvador the arm-