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After a flurry of proposals and counterproposals, El Salvador was not an inch closer to peace. President Jose Napoleon Duarte, whose Christian Democrats are trailing in the polls, took the diplomatic initiative last week by calling for talks with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and offering to postpone for six weeks the presidential elections scheduled for March 19. The army also unilaterally declared a cease-fire until June...
...York Times has recently pointed out, American policy aims differ greatly from what El Salvador has in mind for its own future...
...address the continued disintegration of the Central American economies under spiraling debts and unfundable wars, the five Central American nations have come together in a modest plan for peace and the subsequent reduction of financial pressures. El Salvador is the site of this new regional pact, the highlight of which is Nicaragua's promise of free elections next February in return for the expulsion of the Contras from Honduras...
...United States is facing a similar crisis in El Salvador. Last year American aid to El Salvador doubled that nation's budget. And extraordinarily generous support for the Salvadoran military, besides encouraging corruption and removing any high-level army incentive to end the war, sends a message to all Salvadorans--left, center and right--that El Salvador is not in charge of its own policies...
...formulating a policy for the region, President Bush would do well to keep in mind the Cuban and Nicaraguan precedents. These are not examples of the American failure to contain Communism. These are examples of the American failure to contain its own tendencies to manage and mismanage El Salvador, Central America and the rest of the hemisphere...