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...Bush administration continues to be blind to the human rights abuses perpetrated by the right-wing regime we support in El Salvador. Even after the arrest of a U.S. church worker in San Salvador earlier this week, the administration unswervingly insists that the battle against communism in El Salvador has priority over the well-being of pacifist American citizens in the region...
...Salvadoran military's arrest last Sunday of Jennifer Jean Casolo was almost spectacularly set up. A graduate of Brandeis University who served as a liason between visiting international officials and political groups in El Salvador Casolo was widely known as a devoted religious worker who played by the stringent political rules. Days after receiving an obscene and threatening phone call, the 28-year-old church worker found herself accused of hiding a huge cache of arms for the leftist guerillas...
While North Americans begin to build a consensus on the need to cut off military aid to El Salvador--aid that now amounts to $1.4 million dollars per day--Cristiani has desperately tried to deflect attention away from the recent abuses. Last week he broke all diplomatic and commercial ties with Nicaragua, which he claims is supplying arms and training to the guerrillas. He also announced his refusal to attend the next round of Central American peace talks, scheduled to be held in Nicaragua...
...Jennifer Casolo is Cristiani's trump card. It is an attempt to prove to Bush that even those North Americans who peacefully or silently protest the right-wing government are implicit and explicit supporters of the guerrillas. Cristiani's message applies not only to religious and humanitarian workers in El Salvador, but to all of us here who would like to see the end of U.S. financing of the decade-long civil...
Nine years and billions of dollars later, our blindness and ignorance have contributed ot the deaths of more than 70,000 Salvadorans. Now that a U.S. citizen has been virtually taken hostage in El Salvador--if found guilty in a trial, Casola could face up to 25 years in a Salvadoran prison--a little sympathy, not to say defense, might be appropriate. Instead of this, however, the Bush administration has done everything it can to stack the deck against Casola, and in doing so, has bowed again to the mandates of a repressive government...