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...indications that left-wing guerrillas have been gaining ground in El Salvador's countryside. In the past two months some 7,000 rebels have attacked more than 60 towns, putting the country's U.S.-trained 25,000-man army on the defensive. Acknowledged a military observer: "The Salvadoran forces are tired and frustrated. Their morale has been shot." Evidence of the increased influence of the guerrillas can be seen in the hamlet of Chirilagua, 90 miles southeast of San Salvador. In September, 200 rebels attacked, routing the 20-man National Guard detachment. Since then, guerrillas have openly shared...
...Salvador, LaFeber claims that U.S. policies have failed on two counts. Increased aid and training to Salvadoran troops has not produced a victory over leftist guerrillas in the civil war and the much publicized election of March 2, 1982 have only ducted the rebels' cause by bringing to power a reactionary coalition that has curbed the land reform program and perhaps even tacitly sanctioned political violence. The only hope appears to be a coalition of moderates from both the right and the left although such partnership will inevitably invite violence from both extremes. The lack of solutions is painfully clear...
...Angola would have been overrun by South Africa's racist army: and today the Red Army in Afghanistan is the one hope Afghan women have for emancipation from illiteracy, the bride price and enslavement to feudal tribesmen. It is unfortunately not true that Cuba and the USSR are supplying Salvadoran leftists and Nicaraguan Sandinistas with arms. Here you have an example of the Stalinist bureaucracies betraying revolution in Central America in order to "appease" U.S. imperialism. As Trotskyists, we want to see a change in the Soviet Union and the other deformed workers' states, but not with Reagan's nuclear...
...contras admit they seek the overthrow of the Sandinistas, but the Reagan Administration still claims that the CIA aid is intended only to distract the Nicaraguans from aiding the Salvadoran insurgents. The amendment passed by the House last week provides $50 million strictly for such arms interdiction by "friendly" Central American countries...
...Salvador may have been the most significant: leaving his talks with the Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing President of the Constituent Assembly, freely acknowledged that right-wing death squads, now resurgent and responsible for at least 100 killings a week, are often commanded by Salvadoran government soldiers. Back in Washington at week...