Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junta celebrates its land reform-as the skirmishes continue
...morning early last week, three members of El Salvador's ruling civilian-military junta were busy making surprisingly festive appearances at widely separated haciendas. At a rich estate in the San Isidro Valley, José Antonio Morales Ehrlich addressed a solemn crowd of peasants gathered on the soccer field. "In El Salvador, the exploitation of the peasants has definitely ended," he told them. "Today you work the land for your own benefit." Another junta member, José Ramón Avalos Navarrete, presided over ceremonies at a sugar and coffee plantation near the Guatemala border. At a cotton plantation...
...three ceremonies were being held to celebrate the first anniversary, and the relative success so far, of the country's land-reform program. The haciendas visited by junta members were among the 283 estates that have been expropriated since last March and converted into cooperatives farmed by 40,000 peasants. The recent harvest has not been spectacular, but it was surprisingly satisfactory-especially in view of the disruptions caused by the land-reform process itself and the violence from both left and right...
That month Allen met with the leader of the country's ruling military-civilian junta, Jose Napoleon Duarte, at Reagan transition headquarters in Washington. They discussed the possibility of increasing the U.S. aid to El Salvador that had been initiated in the waning days of the Carter Administration...
...Reagan Administration immediately decided to scrap the Carter policy of linking aid to El Salvador to the elimination of human rights abuses and to progress on land reforms promised by the junta. Instead, another form of linkage was instituted: Reagan and Haig publicly emphasized that since Cuba and other Soviet clients were supporting the rebels, the guerrilla war in El Salvador was not a local affair but part of a larger East-West struggle...