Word: carpio
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Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 62. Slightly built, bespectacled and grandfatherly in appearance, Carpio is known as the grand old man of the Salvadoran guerrilla movement. But despite his disarming looks, there is no mistaking the ruthlessness and tenacity of the man who heads the largest of El Salvador's five major guerrilla organizations, the Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.). In 1980, British Author Graham Greene was impressed by Carpio when they met in Panama. The novelist pleaded unsuccessfully with the insurgent to spare the life of Archibald Gardner Dunn, the South African Ambassador to El Salvador, whom the guerrillas...
That hardness was forged by a life of jailings, torture and clandestine activity that began long before many of Carpio's revolutionary colleagues were even born. The son of a shoemaker, Carpio became a school dropout at the age of 13. He first tried and failed to become apprenticed in his father's trade, then learned to be a baker. In 1943, at the age of 24, he joined the El Salvador Federated Bakery Workers' Society, a trade union. With Carpio's help, the group built a powerful union that in 1944 staged a successful strike...
There is even some question whether the guerrillas in El Salvador could keep bargains made in good faith. The rebel collective is an uneasy lashing-together of at least five factions with conflicting programs. The most radical, the Popular Liberation Forces, led by Salvador Cayetano Carpio, believe in the traditional Marxist guerra prolongada, a war sustained until ultimate, total victory. Neither negotiations nor elections would necessarily stop this group from fighting...
...crowd remains silent and expressionless. "The people we see are often too afraid to speak up," says Roberto Carpio, a Christian Democrat lawyer and journalist who is the vice-presidential candidate. "So they use their faces, their eyes and their hands. It's the language of the hands that's very important. It's a campaign of silence...
When the speech is over and the caravan heads out of town, Maldonado and Carpio are moved into the two bulletproof vans, and the volunteers who ride shotgun unsheath their weapons. For the next hour, the campaigners drive watchfully through the narrow roads and mountain passes at twilight until, it seems, the danger is gone. On the way back to the capital, Maldonado and his men are exhausted, caked with the day's dirt. "We go with our language of moderation, peace, everything, trusting justice rather than strength," says the candidate. "I know it's difficult...