Word: marxist
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Financed by expatriate oligarchs and rightists within the country, D'Aubuisson launched ARENA last spring. He talks about altering the junta's land reform and exterminating the Communists. By that he sometimes seems to mean anything from a Christian Democrat to a Marxist guerrilla. Aided by slick electioneering techniques, D'Aubuisson's party picked up momentum last month and emerged as the main challenger to Duarte's Christian Democrats. The candidate who has been so closely associated with violence was himself the victim of an assassination attempt in February. Sometimes D'Aubuisson will take...
...reasons for his party's sudden success. The people of El Salvador do not want the old schemes, much less the scheme of "communitarianism" [a reference to the philosophy of the Christian Democrats' Duarte, whom right-wing opponents falsely claim is a Marxist]. We offer a very simple human thing: peace and work. We seek a representative democracy, where the power comes from the people, and a free market society. We believe in and respect human rights. We are to tally opposed to Castro terrorism...
...violent death-the first of a foreign journalist in El Salvador since early last year when Photographer Olivier Rebbot was shot-heightened the pressures of covering a war that is in some measure a staged media event. Both Secretary of State Alexander Haig and El Salvador's Marxist-dominated rebels say that the government of President José Napoleón Duarte cannot last without U.S. military aid. Thus both sides are fighting partly to influence American opinion. When New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal returned this month from a tour to "get the feeling" of the situation...
Sancho admits that the guerrilla high command is Marxist, but "it is a Marxism that is 100% Salvadoran. We know we have to act with great realism and seek a policy of coexistence between our little peoples of Central America...
Because Somoza's regime was corrupt and reporters witnessed the brutality of his National Guard, the opposition Sandinistas were seen by the press through a ";romantic haze." "Probably not since Spain has there been a more open love affair." The press correctly reported the Marxist origins of the Sandinista movement but believed that it had been taken over by "the sons and daughters of the bourgeoisie . . . The sources quoted on this trend were primarily the non-Marxists themselves, most of whom are now in exile or otherwise disillusioned." The Marxists insisted that they were not strong enough to take...