Word: salvador
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...local liquor stores and check-cashing agencies with phony paychecks stamped with a variety of corporate logos. And late last year political activists in California distributed some 2,500 copies of the Los Angeles Times wrapped with a fake front page. One "article" criticized U.S. involvement in El Salvador, and another column apologized for the Times's news coverage of events there...
...Sandinistas' defeat and the capture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega have removed two of the most divisive and destabilizing factors in U.S. relations with Latin America. With El Salvador's leftist guerrillas likely to be undercut by a halt in support from Nicaragua and Cuba isolated as never before, the U.S. has an opportunity to move beyond its 30- year struggle with Marxism in the region. It can stop using Nicaragua as an ideological battleground and start treating it like a needy neighbor. But to turn this electoral triumph into something substantial and lasting, Washington will have...
...promise that was Duarte flickered most brightly in 1984, the year he rode to the presidency on a wave of popular enthusiasm. Pledging an end to the civil war and the beginning of an era of stability, Duarte became El Salvador's first freely elected civilian President in half a century. It was a particularly satisfying victory, since Duarte had been robbed of the presidency in 1972, when Salvadoran soldiers halted the vote count and beat the candidate severely. Duarte fled into exile in Venezuela, not venturing home until seven years later, when a coup paved...
...home, Duarte married the daughter of his father's best friend and joined his father-in-law's lucrative construction firm as a partner. In 1960 Duarte helped found the Christian Democratic Party, and four years later he began the first of three consecutive terms as mayor of San Salvador...
...months that followed, Duarte tried unsuccessfully to get the peace talks back on track. He also implemented an austerity program that enjoyed greater support in Washington than in San Salvador. A hefty devaluation of the Salvadoran colon and a tax on coffee, the country's main export, pushed inflation to the 40% mark and raised unemployment close to 50%. Wary businessmen sought investments abroad, while some of the unions that had once supported Duarte joined a new opposition labor confederation. In October 1986 an earthquake flattened much of San Salvador, killing 1,500 people and inflicting $1 billion in damages...