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...lost." Meanwhile, the government of El Salvador, which has committed itself to land reform and fair elections, stands threatened by subversion; El Salvador's conquest by leftist rebels would have a falling-domino effect on the fragile democratic government in neighboring Honduras as well as the insurgency-threatened rightist regime in Guatemala. Haig's ultimate fear is that the entire region, from Mexico to Panama, might fall into the Soviet orbit, which would not only threaten America's vital security interests, but would also show the world that the U.S. is unable to contain the spread...
...strategists have another compelling reason to avoid negotiations in El Salvador at the present time. The Administration believes that it would have little chance of persuading right-wing elements to agree to a settlement that would include the guerrillas. More important, even the attempt could be dangerous. The rightists in El Salvador see negotiations as being a prelude to their political defeat and possible extermination. The rightist-military coalition in Guatemala is also feeling embattled and vulnerable. U.S. experts who have been studying the increasing frustration, belligerence and obstinacy of the right in Central America fear the ultraconservatives might join...
...Salvador. It looked at first like a victory for democracy. The coup that toppled rightist Dictator General Carlos Humberto Romero in October 1979 established a "progressive" junta that included civilian leaders. Trying to satisfy peasant expectations, the military-civilian junta later launched an ambitious reform program; it nationalized the core of the banking system and expropriated many of the larger estates for redistribution among the campesinos...
...into the disabling choice between unacceptable alternatives. "The decisive battle for Central America is under way in El Salvador," he warns, adding that the resolution must be political as well as military. There is concern in the State Department that if the U.S. must choose between supporting a brutal rightist regime or letting a country go to the violent left, the U.S. would let that country go to the left...
...lies the Administration's contention denied by Nicaragua--that the leftist government there is Moscow's puppet and supplies arms to guerrillas fighting the U.S. backed Duarte regime in El. Salvador Reagan is also concerned by the substantial Nicaraguan arms buildup and with reported human rights violations against the rightist opposition and the Miskito Indians. Yet Washington has failed to substantiate its accusations. Nor has the State Department made any attempt to view the world through Nicaraguan eyes. Seen from Managua, the present danger is hardly the same one perceived by our foreign policy leaders...