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Meantime, Duarte was making his own deliberate progress from the capital, accompanied to the meeting by three political aides and Defense Minister General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, who was included as a further gesture of good faith to the guerrillas. As Duarte later told it, the emotional high point of his roughly two-hour trip to the talks came as his red Toyota pulled away from the last army checkpoint, 16 miles south of La Palma. Two officers stepped up to say goodbye. Recalled Duarte: "They said, 'God bless you, and may you bring back peace.' That means...
...personally ordering the battalion attack that retook the Cerrón Grande dam after it was overrun by guerrillas last June. On the other hand, he has dealt gingerly with a high command accustomed to calling the shots on and off the battlefield. The President retained General Eugenio Vides Casanova, 46, a career officer, as Defense Minister, but surrounded him with astute colonels led by Colonel Adolfo Blandón, 45, the easygoing, bespectacled chief of staff. In all, Duarte has retired or reassigned about 4,500 officers in the 45,000-man force...
...persuading the country's businessmen and military officers to accept reforms that might induce the leftist rebels to give up their arms and join the fragile democracy. Before taking over from interim President Alvaro Magaña last week, he announced that he would reappoint General Eugenic Vides Casanova as Defense Minister, but only on condition that he cleanse the armed forces of their links with the coun try's death squads. A week earlier, Vides Casanova had removed Colonel Nicolas Carranza from his post as head of the Treasury Police. Duarte's most sweeping decision...
...teams, a chain of command has never been proved. Last fall, peasant union leaders accused the directors of the intelligence departments of the treasury police, the national guard and the national police of being linked to the squads; after Washington pressed for their removal, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova transferred them...
...intelligence-gathering cells under his command evolved into hit squads, but he denies direct knowledge. National Police Director Colonel Carlos Reynaldo López Nuila insists that he knows nothing about the murders, but nonetheless, suspects are tortured and killed in police compounds. Even Defense Minister Vides Casanova is not untainted: from 1979 to 1983 he served as director of the national guard...