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...moment for Central America. The coup took place just five days before the elections in El Salvador, which the U.S. had hoped would shore up the authority of centrist President José Napoleón Duarte and help him put down the violence of both right-wing extremists and leftist guerrillas. At the same time, the Reagan Administration had been feeling out the possibility of future negotiations involving Nicaragua and Cuba to reduce tensions in the region and end the bloodshed in El Salvador...
...prepare for national elections. But Duarte's chances, on which the Reagan Administration has staked its hopes for democracy in El Salvador, are threatened from two extremes: the far-right National Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by the zealous and charismatic Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, and the leftist guerrilla groups that are boycotting the election...
...rule by right-wingers and the military. But Guevara's election was marred by widespread charges of fraud. Warned one Guatemalan opposition leader: "Something is going to happen here. I can feel it. The will of the people has been mocked one time too many." In Nicaragua, the leftist Sandinista regime declared a state of emergency to counter what it called "aggression directed against our country" by Nicaraguan exiles and the U.S. In Washington, meanwhile, it was revealed that the U.S. had increased the number of its military trainers in Honduras from 25 to as many...
...Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man opens on Primo (Ugo Tognazzi), a hard-working salt-of-the-earth type who has realized the capitalist dream in the form of his own cheese factory outside Parma in northern Italy. The first hint of conflict s straightforward and understandable enough: Primo's leftist-leaning only child Giovanni (Riki Tognazzi) presents him with a birthday gift of a flare-gun and binoculars, accompanied by a note deriding Primo's latest purchase, a yacht Visibly stung by the rebuke, Primo ascends to his factory's roof to survey his domain. In the distance he sees...
...communist group marched in a small circle, chanting slogans in support of El Salvador leftist rebels. The conservatives retaliated with shouts of "Down with Gucci communists" and "Long live the Marines...