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...controversy surrounding the choice, Magaña's election came as no surprise. Indeed, it was part of a compromise worked out by the major political parties after strong prodding from the Salvadoran military and the U.S. embassy. The same agreement also led to the election of three Vice Presidents instead of one. Representing the largest parties in the assembly, they were Raúl Molina Martinez of the rightist National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.), Gabriel Mauricio Gutiérrez Castro of ARENA, and Pablo Mauricio Alvergue of the centrist Christian Democrats. The result gave at least the appearance...
...Aubuisson's success does not bode well for the improvement of human rights in El Salvador. He has often been accused of being involved with rightist death squads, and he campaigned on a promise to eradicate the leftists. Though he has lately tried to moderate his image, some Salvadorans seem to be taking his tough talk at face value. Workers who regularly count the bodies dumped along the roadsides report that political murders have increased some 20% since the elections. And in the tiny mud-hut hamlet of Barrios last week, survivors of an alleged Sunday-morning massacre told...
...Strong, one of the conference organizers, said yesterday that attracting speakers for the workshops from groups such as the Salvadoran Democratic Front. OXFAM and the international third world development organization is indicative of this year's emphasis on action and practical solutions...
...Administration has repeatedly accused the Sandinistas of transporting and supplying arms to leftist rebels in El Salvador, though the evidence is scanty at best and manufactured at worst. Last month the State Department introduced to the world a young Nicaraguan--whom they claimed they had found fighting with the Salvadoran rebels--as proof of the Communist network. The hardened revolutionary turned out to be a student returning home to Nicaragua from Mexico City. The paranoia about Nicaragua, which keeps telling Washington it is a "poor country that does not represent a threat to the United States," would be comical...
...foreign affairs, they did not hesitate when controversy arose about Central America, with its close missionary ties to the U.S. church. In El Salvador, says Editor Thomas Fox of the National Catholic Reporter, "Catholics know what's going on better than anybody else." The 1980 murders of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and four U.S. missionaries stirred wide revulsion in church ranks. Though their brother bishops in El Salvador take a different view, the U.S. prelates decided to oppose U.S. military aid, in part because of information about right-wing atrocities from American missionaries...