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...Salvador, the CIA station chief was quite close to the right-wing security forces, which clouded his judgment; he was replaced in 1980, but Reagan Administration officials complain that they inherited a network that had poor contacts with the leftist guerrillas. Nonetheless, a senior CIA official insists: "We are building up our assets and, while not the best, our resources are pretty good now." Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence agree that, as one puts it, "We've had to play catch-up." The quality of information has greatly improved over the past few months. Yet even...
...battlefield nor at the ballot box. Negotiations would vindicate guerrilla warfare by abandoning the principle that an insurgency should not be allowed to force a government to the bargaining table by means of violence. The talks would also be bound to increase the momentum for an eventual leftist triumph...
Sporadic battles between left and right go back to the 1954 coup that brought the present military class to power. A leftist insurgency was brutally put down in the late '60s. But the country has never before witnessed the sustained political violence of today. The death toll has recently risen from 300 to 500 a month. As in neighboring El Salvador, much of the killing is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush the small but hard-hitting leftist guerrilla movement. In addition, right-wing paramilitary groups, like the Secret Anti-Communist...
Joaquín Villalobos, 30. Commander of the People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the second largest guerrilla organization and the one that is probably the least doctrinaire, Villalobos has been described in some leftist publications as a "militarist," meaning that he denigrates theory in favor of action. Unlike some of the other groups, Villalobos' E.R.P. did not stem from the Communist Party; its original members were largely radicalized Roman Catholics who resorted to kidnaping and urban terrorism...
...Villalobos caused a sizable scandal in Latin American leftist circles when he personally executed a well-known Communist poet, Roque Dalton Garcia, on trumped-up charges of being an agent of the CIA. In reality, Dalton was Villalobos' chief political rival. The killing led to bitter factional fights within the E.R.P. and to a breakaway movement. Villalobos' chief gestures of conciliation, on the other hand, have been toward his erstwhile enemy, the Salvadoran army. While some extremists want to purge the whole force in the event of a guerrilla victory, Villalobos has said that "those army sectors that...