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...extend the regime's reforms?notably a land redistribution program begun in 1980?and rein in the endemic violence that haunts El Salvador, much of it attributed to the government's own security forces. But he faces a tough challenge from ultrarightist candidates in the six-party contest. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer and a fierce extremist, has been campaigning aggressively on an unleash-the-army-and-crush-the-Communists platform, and has been gaining momentum. A victory by a coalition of D'Aubuisson's National Republican Alliance with the conservative National Reconciliation Party...
...right-wing factions that could sap Duarte's strength in the assembly is led by Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer who has been repeatedly accused of being a death squad leader, a charge he ignores. He has become an attractive campaigner with a winning smile and a promise to step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove...
Honduras. Although it is Central America's poorest country, and is threatened by the possible spillover of neighboring upheaval, Honduras has good cause to rejoice: last December its voters made Roberto Suazo Córdova their first freely elected civilian President since 1971. The election was the result of two years of U.S. pressure on the corruption-riddled regime of General Policarpo Paz García. Though still in its fragile infancy, Honduran democracy can serve the region as a salutary model of popular government, and an example of the positive leverage that Washington can wield under the right conditions...
Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that U.S. initiatives in Central America are doomed to fail--and fail disastrously. In El Salvador, the extreme right appears likely to win this month's election. The dominant figure in Salvadoran politics would then be Republican Nationalist Alliance leader Roberto D'Aubuisson, who former ambassador Robert White calls a "pathological killer." D'Aubuisson has vowed to intensify the fight against leftist guerillas, making the prospect for a peaceful settlement virtually...
...crowd remains silent and expressionless. "The people we see are often too afraid to speak up," says Roberto Carpio, a Christian Democrat lawyer and journalist who is the vice-presidential candidate. "So they use their faces, their eyes and their hands. It's the language of the hands that's very important. It's a campaign of silence...