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...only Central American country in which the Roman Catholic Church was under attack last week. In neighboring El Salvador, the nation's two highest-ranking prelates became targets of a campaign of intimidation by death squads. In a terse communique delivered to a radio station, the rightist Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Anti-Communist Brigade warned Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas and Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chávez that they would suffer "drastic consequences" if their Sunday sermons did not stop criticizing human rights violations and urging dialogue with leftist guerrillas. The menace was taken seriously: El Salvador's last...
...military advisers blame the setbacks on commanders who are still waging a "9-to-5 war." But defeats in the field may reflect deeper political problems, including the absence of widespread support for the government and continued feuding between rightist and moderate factions. A government-appointed peace commission has met with guerrilla representatives several times to try to arrange some kind of settlement. But so far neither side has shown much willingness to trade its guns for seats at a negotiating table...
...Holy City" to a furnace. Skimming the roof tops, fighting planes followed with all machine guns popping, harrying terrified peasants through the fields, sending them sprawling in their own blood. Over 800 men, women and children were killed. The munitions factory and barracks, untouched, were later seized by advancing Rightist infantry. Said Catholic Canon Alberto Onoindia of Valladolid Cathedral: "I saw the bombing and burning of Guernica, one of the terrible crimes of this...
Israel is a "surrogate" force for the United States, Chomsky said, supporting "rightist repressive regimes with American funding and with tacit American approval." Spurred by a soaring debt and a heavy dependence on U.S. aid, Israel has supported Gautemalan. El Salvadoran and Honduras conservatives, even though these governments are akin to "Heinrich Himmler's legacies," he said...
...stressing Mexico's revolutionary credentials in foreign policy, the government co-opts leftist parties that might be opposed to its more conservative policies at home. Says Mexican Social Democrat Luis Sanchez Aguilar: "When the left applauds the external policy of Mexico, it has an excuse to forget the rightist policies inside...