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It twice ordered the local population (which has no great enthusiasm for the ELN) to stage roadblocks in protest at the planned peace zone.

In return the government has promised jobs".Violence is high, but unemployment is higher," says Salvador Ruano, the mayor of Ilopango, a peace zone on the eastern fringe of San Salvador, the capital.

Hours before President Andres Pastrana planned to order the army to retake a guerrilla-controlled "peace zone", the FARC rebels agreed to restart talks, despite government surveillance of the zone.

In a recent television interview, the senior commander, Nicolas Rodriguez Bautista, acknowledged that "there is much fear" of a peace zone but attributed that to "the pressure of paramilitary groups".

The priest in charge of the shrine, Rev. Emiliyas Pillai, said the SLA launched attacks towards the area despite repeated pledges to keep the area as a "peace zone".

The two sides do not yet agree on where the "peace zones" will be, or what sort of police force will keep them peaceful.

A 150-member "joint security committee" will choose "peace zones" where GAM weapons will be stored.

But the interest in the peace zones among opposition mayors such as Mr Ruano suggests the truce may last.

The peace zones were initially christened "sanctuaries" but hastily renamed after residents imagined a haven for criminals.

In March 2012 they agreed to end their aggression and, in certain peace zones, hand in their weapons.