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...crisis began when Garcia, who was jealous of Ochoa's increasing prominence as a successful antiguerrilla fighter, ordered the 40-year-old officer to resign his command in the northern province of Cabañas and assume duties as military attaché in Uruguay. Ochoa refused. He declared his province a "free territory," and phoned a San Salvador radio station to demand that Garcia resign as head of the armed forces because he had shown himself incompetent in handling the country's three-year-old civil...
...embassy officials felt there was more to the dispute than Ochoa's reluctance to move to the diplomatic backwater of Uruguay. They speculated that Garcia had wanted to transfer the popular Ochoa in order to strengthen his own political ambitions as a potential challenger to right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. Garcia has generally supported increased U.S. involvement in El Salvador and land reform, while D'Aubuisson has not. At the same time, U.S. officials feared that Ochoa, a military classmate of D'Aubuisson's, was being used by D'Aubuisson...
Shortly after dawn Wednesday, Ochoa came to terms with Garcia through the mediation efforts of provisional President Alvaro Magaña and senior army officers who supported Ochoa's protest but not his tactics. In the compromise, Ochoa's reassignment to Uruguay was withdrawn. He was also promised he would not be arrested or court-martialed. Ironically, Ochoa's insubordination may earn him a prestigious assignment at the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington...
Although he has been criticized privately by both U.S. and his own military officers for his ineffectiveness as a military leader, Garcia had been hinting that he would stay on as Defense Minister past his scheduled retirement date in February and that he might even run for President when elections are held in March 1984. Now, his authority shaken, Garcia is expected to resign "after a prudent, face-saving time period," according to one U.S. official...
...President has until Jan. 23 to submit his semiannual certification to Congress that El Salvador's government is making progress on human rights and is carrying out land reform. Without the statement, the President must immediately cut off all military assistance. State Department officials described the Ochoa-Garcia duel as "absolutely not germane" to the certification, and said last week that the Administration would once again rule in El Salvador's favor. Washington officials noted with satisfaction that the number of politically motivated murders was now below 200 a month, down from an average of 500 a month...