Word: aide
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...should make financial aid to El Salvador conditional upon the country's efforts to reduce human rights violations, a representative of the Salvadoran rebel group and political opposition told about 50 people at a Law School forum last night...
Oscar Orellana Garcia, a representative of the human rights arm of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)--which has fought a civil war in El Salvador throughout this decade--said U.S. support should be restricted to humanitarian aid and conditional upon the resolution of the country's political turmoil...
...Really what we are calling for is no military aid," he said...
Speaking in Spanish through an interpreter, Garcia said that the $4 billion the U.S. has sent to El Salvador, much of it in the form of military aid, has made it difficult for opposition groups to protect human rights...
...flow of drugs has long been a matter of intense dispute between the U.S. and Mexico, and the raids come as the Congress faces a late April deadline for certifying that Mexico is doing its best to combat drug trafficking and so deserves continued U.S. aid...