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...ideology appears to be now, or even how short the current regime falls of our democratic standards. Rather, we must worry about what will surely follow. The Communists will usurp the insurgents' victory, as they did in Cuba. We will have another enemy at our doorstep, and the Salvadoran people will continue to suffer...
Realizing that the Administration's refusal to consider negotiations was costing it heavily in public and diplomatic support, U.S. officials began hinting about "dialogues" and "discussions" with all parties involved, including the guerrillas. In San Salvador, U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton said that the newly elected Salvadoran government might have to "show a certain flexibility." Lest Hinton's words be seen as a sign of weakness or a lack of faith in the government, U.S. officials stressed that any talks would focus not on giving power to the rebels but merely bringing them back into the electoral process. Said...
...Aubuisson as a dangerous and unprincipled killer who would bring a further reign of right-wing terror on the country if elected. The Christian Democrats accused D'Aubuisson of once having been jailed for 45 days after abandoning his troops during a state of emergency. They reminded Salvadorans that D'Aubuisson once confessed to having headed ANSESAL, the notorious Salvadoran political police, and charged that the ARENA leader had transformed the agency into "an executioner and torturer...
When it came to mudslinging, D'Aubuisson more than held his own. ARENA circulated duplicates of letters from Salvadoran guerrilla leaders to East Germany and the Soviet Union, allegedly implicating Christian Democrats as collaborators in the rebel cause. D'Aubuisson's contemptuous name for the Christian Democrats: "watermelons," meaning that they are green (the party color) on the outside but Red within. The party took out a full-page newspaper advertisement urging the nearly 150 international observers who attended the election to drop by ARENA headquarters for the party's version of events...
Other political parties in the race were less dramatic, but equally scathing, in their attacks on the Christian Democrats. The National Conciliation Party, traditional vehicle of El Salvador's landed oligarchy, called Duarte "the symbol of betrayal." One member of the Salvadoran Popular Party, a business-oriented conservative group, noted the recent visit of a Christian Democrat leader to Switzerland and asked rhetorically: "What do they have in Switzerland? Banks with numbered accounts." The small Democratic Action Party, drawing support from middle-class professionals and businessmen, labeled the programs of the Christian Democrats as "fascist...