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...possessed of a messianic conviction that he and he alone could bring peace and democracy to his bloodstained nation. And for a long time after Jose Napoleon Duarte became President of El Salvador in 1984 Washington shared his belief that he could make a difference. Six years later, however, El Salvador remains as desperate as ever. The bitter civil war lurches on, with the country's 5 million people still hostage to the brutal campaigns of the far-right death squads and the left-wing guerrillas. Duarte's economic and social reforms are mostly in ruins, and his pledges...
COCA is planning to circulate a petition at Harvard to encourage the Bush administration to end trade embargos and contra aid, Donaghy said. And on March 24, a COCA-organized group will travel to Washington to participate in a national protest over aid to El Salvador and the war in Nicaragua...
Cambridge currently maintains sister city programs in Yerevan, USSR; San Jose las Flores, El Salvador; Coimbra, Portugal; Gaeta, Italy; and Tsukaba, Japan...
Despite allegations that Secret Service agents and Cambridge police officers used excessive force to stop a blockade of El Salvador President Alfredo Cristiani's motorcade Sunday, Harvard protesters said yesterday that they will not file formal complaints...
...have every right to file a complaint, and there's plenty of grounds for it." said COCA member Sean L. Gullette '91. "But there's much more important violence taking place in El Salvador...