Word: aubisson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scant success brooked by moderates in sharing rule with Marxist guerillas. But at the same time the guerillas are understandably wary about answering Duarte's call to join elections; they know too well the propensity of the Salvadoran military to shoot up anyone to the left of Roberto D'Aubisson. Even Duarte's meeting with the rebels at La Palma has been met only with the snarls of the death squads, who vow death to those offering a middle way out of El Salvador's problems...
...difficult, even impossible, to discuss the situation in EI Salvador without expressing some sort of political viewpoint. Didion makes her own position clear, sometimes explicitly, but usually implicitly. Her unflattering portraits of rightist leaders like Robertod' Aubisson, and her constant comparisons of the Salvadoran reality she perceives with the White House's roster view demonstrate her opposition to current U.S. policy. And she mocks the notion that true progress has been made on the human rights front Indeed, she finds a language common to Washington and the Salvadoran Right that has replaced the word "change" with the word "symbol...
...Administration and Congress should stop supplying the Salvadoran military and start putting pressure on d'Aubisson to continue land reform and seek an agreement with the guerrillas. American involvement in El Salvador--which will amount to more than $200 million for fiscal 1983--serves no constructive purpose if it maintains the status quo. What influence we have would be better used to effect pragmatic change. For the time being, though, we are only adding fuel to the fire...
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