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...first clear indication of the government's moratorium on elections came late last month in a speech by Humberto Ortega Saavedra, 34, the Defense Minister. On the same platform was the visiting President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, who had made a strong plea, as advice from a neighbor, for early elections. But when it came his turn to speak, Ortega announced that elections would not be held until 1985. "The economic and moral destruction of the country is of such magnitude that it cannot be rebuilt before 1985," he said, by way of explanation...
...SALVADOR. The Nicaraguan example directly influenced the coup that last October toppled El Salvador's own dictator, General Carlos Humberto Romero. In a desperate attempt to pre-empt a San-dinista-style revolution-with Washington's encouragement-a group of moderate military officers seized power. Then, in an effort to satisfy peasant expectations and calm labor unrest, the five-man military-civilian junta made its own attempt at reform. It expropriated some large estates and nationalized the core of the country's banking system...
Originally regarded as a conservative in his views, Romero had spoken out more and more boldly against the repressiveness of the country's rulers since his appointment as archbishop in 1977. He bitterly assailed Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero (no relation) and the notorious activities of the National Police and ORDEN, the brutalizing paramilitary arm of Romero's and other regimes. The archbishop had ample provocation. No fewer than seven priests have been murdered in the past three years by pro-government forces, and Catholic activists were frequently among those subjected to beatings and torture...
Ever since the overthrow of Military Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero by a group of junior army officers last October, the civilian-military junta has been powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from...
...effort to avert all-out civil war, junior officers in the Salvadoran army had toppled the despotic military regime of General Carlos Humberto Romero last October and installed a five-man junta composed of two moderate colonels and three reform-minded civilians. The new government was immediately attacked by extremists on both the left and right. Further weakened by internal divisions, the junta was unable to stop the violence...