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...heart of the debate are the timetables for bringing about peace. The Guatemala plan, signed by the Presidents of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, calls for cease-fires in the region's civil wars, an end to outside aid for local insurgents, democratic reforms and free elections. The agreement gives the Central American governments 90 days from the date of its signing -- until Nov. 7 -- to work out the details. That is five weeks after the U.S.'s current $100 million aid package for the contras expires on Sept. 30. The Reagan-Wright proposal, on the other...
...anonymous letter sent to Father Luis Olivares' Los Angeles church earlier this month bore only the cryptic initials E.M., but its message was alarmingly clear. In El Salvador the letters are short for esquadron de la muerte, a vicious right-wing death squad whose modus operandi is to warn its intended victims that they have been marked for torture or assassination because they are suspected of sympathizing with antigovernment guerrillas. Now Olivares and the estimated 600,000 Salvadorans who have fled to the U.S. to escape the homicidal politics of their homeland fear that the death squads have invaded Southern...
...most serious incident so far, Yanira Corea, a 24-year-old Salvadoran activist, was forced at knifepoint by two men who spoke with Salvadoran accents into a van outside the downtown-Los Angeles office of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a group opposing U.S. policies in Central America. For several hours, she told police, she was kept blindfolded in the van as her abductors cut her hands, burned her with cigarettes and sexually assaulted her, while they questioned her about CISPES' activities and membership. When they set her free, says Corea, the kidnapers told...
...threats but also for a nationwide series of break-ins at sanctuary churches and organizations opposed to U.S. involvement in Central America. Says Father Olivares, one of the leaders in the movement to provide sanctuary to the refugees: "My feeling is that it has to be directed from El Salvador because of the tactics, the methodology, and because it is impossible to believe that anyone living here could think these crude tactics could work in the U.S." California Democrat Don Edwards, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, has launched a congressional probe into purported reprisals against...
...deportation of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans, accused the Administration of "playing politics with people's lives" in helping Nicaraguans (reflecting U.S. aversion to the Sandinista regime) while ignoring ; Salvadorans (to avoid suggesting that they might have reason to flee from a government the U.S. supports). Said Moakley: "If El Salvador were under Communist leadership, they'd have the welcome wagons out waiting...