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...week's diplomatic process wore on, the Reagan Administration could savor some small gains in Central America. The first came in El Salvador, where Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia, 49, announced his resignation. For months, Garcia has been the object of increasing frustration for U.S. military trainers and restive officers of the Salvadoran armed forces. An astute politician, Garcia had been helpful to the U.S. in supporting El Salvador's land-reform program and curbing the excesses of right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. But on the antiguerrilla battlefront, Garcia fought what...
Complicating matters for the Administration is the fact that the Salvadoran insurgents have repeatedly said they are willing to negotiate. The most explicit offer came last October, when Guillermo Manuel Ungo, president of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, a group of five leftist parties now allied with the guerrillas, offered "unconditional" discussions with the Reagan Administration in order...
...last 10 years, Amnesty International is investigating the "disappearances" of 250 prisoners of conscience. All political parties and activities are banned in Chile, and the government routinely makes arrests, banishes dissidents to remote areas of the country, holds people incommunicado for weeks, and worse. Justice is meager. One man, Guillermo Rodriguez Morales, was accused in 1981 of killing a government agent and sentenced to life imprisonment after a 45 minute trial...
Much of the blame for the guerrillas' success is placed on Salvadoran Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia. Ignoring U.S. military advice, Garcia has wasted the energies of the 22,000-man Salvadoran army on massive and fruitless sweep operations in the hinterlands, while allowing the guerrillas to exercise their mobility fully in economic sabotage and spectacular urban takeovers. Says a Western military analyst in El Salvador: "There has to be a complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole...
...occupation was a "significant psychological action." Not only had the guerrillas briefly occupied a major town, but they seemed to have underscored a growing incompetence on the part of the Salvadoran army. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have repeatedly warned the country's Defense Minister, José Guillermo Garcia, to concentrate on defending economically vital Usulután, where they believe the Salvadoran conflict ultimately will be won or lost. Instead, Garcia had sent the cream of his 22,000-member army into the northeastern department of Morazán, a mountainous guerrilla stronghold that is both economically...