Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...export crops-coffee, sugar cane and cotton-and disruption in the fields could deal the shaky economy a crippling blow. Leftists are also concerned that the going may get rougher after Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin America. In that climate, El Salvador's rightists might feel free to mount an even more intense confrontation with...
...Salvador, $25 million in all, until circumstances of the murders are clarified. The White House also announced that it was dispatching a fact-finding mission to El Salvador; it will be headed by William D. Rogers, who served as Assistant Secretary of State in the Ford Administration. The ruling junta blamed the murders on right-wing terrorists bent on stopping any buildup of leftist sentiment...
...ruling junta, in power for little more than a year, seems shakier than ever. Divided between centrist reformers and military hardliners, it is unable to stop the bloodshed and appears to be increasingly vulnerable to a rightist coup. Many Salvadorans are resigned to the inevitability of civil war. At the moment, the government has about 15,000 men under arms, while the leftists have perhaps 5,000 active guerrillas; the military odds, in short, are roughly the same as the ones that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle faced in Nicaragua at the start of the Sandinista rebellion...
Reagan's election has in fact set the tone for a more vigorous anti-Communist thrust to ward off a revolution like the Sandinista takeover in neighboring Nicaragua, but it has not given rightists a license to hunt leftists, or to try to overthrow the junta...
...meeting with a group of Reagan's aides last week, a delegation of middle-of-the-road Salvadoreans received assurances of increased U.S. military aid for counterinsurgency operations, but the Reagan team issued an accompanying warning against any notions about mounting a right-wing coup against the junta...