Word: e1
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designation of the city as a sanctuary for E1 Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Haitian refugees. In addition to opening all public schools and hospitals for refugees, the city council ordered municipal employees not to cooperate with federal authorities seeking to extradite political refugees...
...three, from E1 Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, also participated in a demonstration Sunday in Boston against the U.S. invasion of Grenada...
Violations: Lebanon, E1 Salvador...
Cutting off military aid to E1 Salvador, or to the "interdiction" effort in Nicaragua, would expose Democrats to the charge of "losing" E1 Salvador. Neither Reagan nor the Democrats want to "lose" a country, but the Democrats won't let Reagan try to win it either, so they procrastinate, advocating a doomed, hopelessly inadequate military effort and demanding comforting lies from Reagan about human rights progress and "dialogue in good faith...
...America, then they should give Reagan whatever he wants and let him accept the consequences. "Compromises" just prolong the violence, raising the death toll and possibly leaving a mess for a Democratic president to clean up. Sooner or later, someone has to take the heat for pulling out of E1 Salvador and Nicaragua, and Democrats should have learned by now that decisions like this cannot be postponed forever...