Word: leftist
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When I say that, in my opinion, Duarte is not a leftist but rather a centrist, he pounds the table: "The political center is like an anus: it is round and it stinks." His scatological images delight his audiences. He turns to me with a challenge: "I'll publicly bet you that I'll win the elections. If I become President, the penalty is you have to write a novel about El Salvador. If I lose, I'll give you one colón." The clear implication is that a novel of mine is worth...
...raise the consciousness of the downtrodden in what they see as a class struggle. A fringe element has even flirted with revolutionary violence. Developed in the late 1960s among Latin American Roman Catholics, liberation theology has spread with increasing force throughout the Third World, as well as among leftist Catholic and Protestant circles in Europe and North America...
Should d'Aubuisson emerge as president, which would have happened in the 1982 elections had not the U.S. embassy wisely intervened, the already tottering country would plunge into chaos. Like the extreme right wing factions of the army who support him, d'Aubuisson has pledged to fight the leftist guerrillas to the death as well as vowing to put a stop once and for all to the currently stalled land reform program...
...package for Central America. By trimming and delaying the Administration's request, the lawmakers are scoring political points at home. In the process, they are gambling that America's already fragile Central American policy can survive the stresses of the next few months, and most especially the leftist threat in El Salvador. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Barrett Seaman/Washington
...member U.S. Army Special Forces teams have been conducting training courses for soldiers and policemen on five of the sweet-smelling Spice Islands. Those developments are reassuring to some islanders, who feel that a build-up is long overdue and that by strengthening their defense forces they can resist leftist insurgencies. Other residents, however, fear that larger local armies will bring more war than peace to the region, turn their islands into U.S. satellites and thrust them into the middle of superpower conflicts. Says Dominica's former Finance Minister Michael Douglas: "During the last few months, we have seen...