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...personal loyalty to Nassar that made Administration officials reluctant to prosecute the Mexican agent. They were more concerned with protecting the delicate, shadowy system of international intelligence cooperation. Nassar had headed Mexico's Directorate of Federal Security since 1977 and supplied the U.S. with important information about Salvadoran and Guatemalan guerrilla figures...
Without U.S. guns and money, the Salvadoran army might well be defeated by the guerrillas. The victorious leftists could support Marxist insurgencies in neighboring Guatemala and throughout the region. In short, Washington's worst domino-theory nightmares could result from the very elections on which the U.S. had pinned its best hopes. Said Congressman Stephen Solarz: "If a government of the right is formed, it will indeed turn out that the elections paved the road to disaster...
...together a functioning government. With 40% of the vote, Duarte's party seemed assured of a leading role in the new assembly. But the five rightist parties, who collectively polled 60%, had other plans. Their leaders met the morning after the election at the home of Salvadoran Popular Party Leader Francisco Quinonez to begin talks on forming their own coalition. Led by D'Aubuisson's ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), with its 29% of the vote and 19 assembly seats, the five parties were held together mainly by personal animosity to Duarte. "The fact is," explained...
...condition for continued U.S. aid was that the Salvadoran government must "credibly" strive for three longstanding U.S. objectives: 1) continuation of the land redistribution program, 2) commitment to free elections and 3) an end to indiscriminate human rights abuses. Any new coalition, the U.S. made clear, must include a "prominent role" for the Christian Democrats, who are most closely tied to the reforms. The U.S. also hammered home the message that a leading role for the notorious D'Aubuisson would be unacceptable to Congress...
Surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards, D'Aubuisson later told reporters pugnaciously: "The Salvadoran people voted for us, not for Mr. Duarte to be President." He nonetheless tried to appear conciliatory, saying that his coalition "will exclude no one from the government." D'Aubuisson reiterated his stand on Duarte's land and banking reforms that he had bitterly criticized during the campaign. Said he: "We aren't going to do away with the reforms. We are going to make them more efficient...