Word: aubuisson
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Despite the assortment of parties, two figures dominated the election: President José Napoleón Duarte, 56, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, a former national guard intelligence major who personifies the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA...
...Christian Democrats' main campaign tactic recently has been to play on popular fears of their chief opponent, D'Aubuisson's right-wing party, ARENA. A recent Christian Democrat documentary, entitled D'Aubuisson Naked, showed film clips of the rightist leader making public threats against political and religious figures who were later assassinated or attacked. Images of the bodies or funerals were spliced into the film. Among the victims: the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated by a gunman while saying Mass at the altar on March...
...Aubuisson, 38, has a reputation for terror that belies his boyish good looks and his present efforts to moderate his image (see box). A one-time armed forces intelligence officer, he gained the nickname of Major Blowtorch for his reputed skill at interrogating with that instrument. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert E. White, testifying before a U.S. Senate Committee, said that there is "evidence, if not 100% conclusive, that D'Aubuisson and his group are responsible for the murder of Archbishop Romero." White also linked D'Aubuisson to the right-wing death squads, a charge that...
Financed by expatriate oligarchs and rightists within the country, D'Aubuisson launched ARENA last spring. He talks about altering the junta's land reform and exterminating the Communists. By that he sometimes seems to mean anything from a Christian Democrat to a Marxist guerrilla. Aided by slick electioneering techniques, D'Aubuisson's party picked up momentum last month and emerged as the main challenger to Duarte's Christian Democrats. The candidate who has been so closely associated with violence was himself the victim of an assassination attempt in February. Sometimes D'Aubuisson will take...
Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine guns that were lying on the table in his party's headquarters in San Salvador. Roberto d'Aubuisson, the candidate of the far right, is determined these days to soften his image as a gunman. He rose in Salvadoran society by attending his country's military academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army...