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...week the Sandinistas moved against COSEP. After publicly accusing the government of egregious economic mismanagement and "an undeniable Marxist-Leninist line," four leaders of COSEP were summarily arrested and jailed by Sandinista security forces. So were 22 members of the Communist Party for criticizing government economic policy. Said former Junta Member Alfonso Robelo: "The detention is one more example of the climate of horror that my country has begun to experience...
...emergency in September, banning strikes, profiteering and the distribution of news or information deemed to be injurious to the economy. The regime was also worried about a possible counterinsurgency led by supporters of the deposed Somoza and other anti-Sandinista groups. Meanwhile, the government increased its attacks on COSEP. Junta Member Sergio Ramirez charged that the organization espoused "a systematic defense of the most primitive type of capitalism, which tries to paralyze the revolution, to resuscitate forces which hinder the revolutionary process...
After a two-month lull in the anti-guerrilla war, the operation clearly demonstrated the government's new military power. But in San Salvador, the moderate junta, led by President José Napoleón Duarte, was having new and serious problems. Right-wing businessmen, long attacked by Duarte as the greatest threat to the junta, were grasping for a share of power in the beleaguered country. Said the President: "The private sector is in its final offensive...
...businessmen, who have close ties to military officers displeased with the junta's policies, first clashed openly with the Duarte government over a proposed relaxation of a wage-price freeze. Government officials quashed the plan. Since then, businessmen, frustrated by the lack of international confidence in the Salvadoran economy, have pressed Duarte to moderate his reforms by giving the private sector freer reign. The campaign has had some success. Besides loosening tax and credit requirements, the junta has indefinitely postponed its planned second stage of the land-reform program, which would have converted some 1,500 small farms...
...priority for U.S. policymakers seeking a political settlement in El Salvador, conservative business leaders are already looking for a candidate to run against Duarte. The man most frequently mentioned is René Fortin Magaña, 49, an attorney and former member of the short-lived "progressive" junta of 1960. That regime was replaced by a series of military governments before the leftist coup in 1979 led to the present junta...