Word: junta
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...current US activities in El Salvador as leading to increased military engagement with far reaching implications for our strategic interests in the Caribbean basin. Support for our policies is limited and unreliable. Our identification with the governing Junta in that country has placed us in a collision course with key regional actors with whom we need to maintain friendly and cooperative diplomatic and economic relations...
While Reagan and his guests ate lunch at the Capitol building and marched in the inaugural parade, about 500 protesters gathered at the Elipse, a park across the street from the White House, to hear speeches against racism, the draft, and U.S. support for the military junta in El Salvador...
...LAST, and undoubtedly most disturbing Central American policy decision, the Carter administration last week resumed military aid to El Salvador's repressive junta. In some ways, it was no surprise that Carter, who for four years has touted human rights, should reveal the hollowness of his ideals in his final presidential flourish. His administration has increased aid to the regime of Jose Napolean Duarte from $1 million to almost $6 million in four years...
...price of this aid has been the deaths of countless Salvadorans and seven Americans; and the junta our government labels "reform-minded" has proved incapable even of controlling its own American-armed military forces. Carter's resumption of military aid sets the stage all too well for Ronald Reagan's escalation of this support, harming the Salvadoran people and staining the American conscience once again as it supports the people's adversary...
During his campaign, Reagan issued a not-so-subtle farewell to human rights, promising to base his foreign policy on "the world as it is." In the case of El Salvador, the president would do well to see the reality of the situation: a repressive military junta opposing a majority of the people and the opposition party they support. The United States must not, for the next four years, continue to support a government that stands only because American guns and money back...