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...Some U.S.-built facilities have already fallen into disuse. One of them is a training facility at San Lorenzo on the Gulf of Fonseca, which separates Nicaragua and El Salvador. Temporary barracks built for U.S. personnel are being sold to the Honduran army, and a 7,500-foot dirt airfield is channeled with deep ruts that would almost, but not quite, prevent a C-130 transport from making a bumpy landing. Despite that handicap, according to one military source, Honduran airfields are adequate to bring the entire 15,000-man complement of the 82nd Airborne into the country...
...toward the Central American coast, where they will take part in readiness exercises this week. The task force is smaller than U.S. carrier fleets that plied the same waters seven months ago on White House orders, but the intention is the same: to warn the Marxist governments of nearby Nicaragua and Cuba that the U.S. will brook no interference in El Salvador, particularly during the elections...
Major d'Aubuisson is young, handsome, aggressive, with the aura of a playboy, indefatigable, and his speeches are interspersed with jokes and vulgarities. He does not know uncertainty. His ideas are utterly simplistic: it was President Carter who surrendered Nicaragua to the Sandinistas. Carter also prepared to turn over El Salvador to Communism, but "we stopped the conspiracy in its tracks." At the time, the major was an intelligence officer, and he claims he quit so he could "denounce the Communist plot." According to his adversaries, when he left the army he took with him the intelligence archives. Many...
...block economic aid that would save the displaced from dying of hunger." According to D'Aubuisson, the death squads do not exist. What about the 1,259 assassinations that, according to the archbishopric, the death squads carried out in 1983? "Those are, perhaps, Salvadoran Communists who died in Nicaragua fighting against Somoza, and whose names are now exploited by disinformation campaigns...
Pope John Paul came up against the movement directly during his tour of Central America a year ago. He was especially alarmed by the campaign in Nicaragua to drive a wedge between the Catholic hierarchy and a "people's church" inspired by liberationist thinking. Upon his return to Rome, John Paul commissioned a special study of the problem by the Vatican's top theologian, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger...