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...outrage expressed by many Americans and the daily horror stories emerging from El Salvador, Congress last year placed five conditions on U.S. military aid to El Salvador. On January 28, President Reagan, in what could only be termed a cynical move, certified that among other things, the Salvadoran government was making a concerted effort to protect the human rights of the Salvadoran people. Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador under the Carter administration, put it best when he recently characterized the certification as the "[Reagan] Administration's whitewash of the brutal and corrupt Salvadoran military machine...
...Reagan has said that conditions in El Salvador are improving. The only substantiation offered for this claim is the Administration's pronouncement that only 6000 died in 1981 as opposed to more than double that number the year before These figures as the Administration has admitted are derived from Salvadoran newspaper reports Yet the Salvadoran military's policy of censorship through terror is well known. Among those who dared to defy this implicit censorship policy are the editor of La Cronica a Salvadoran daily and the Salvadoran correspondent for the Commission on Human Rights and the Salvadoran Catholic Church have...
...second condition on military aid that President Reagan has certified as met is that the Salvadoran junta "is achieving substantial control over all elements of its own armed forces." This assertion came on the heels of a massacre of 700 women, children and elderly by the Atlcatl battalion and a New York Times report that American military advisers had witnessed the torture and murder of two Salvadoran teenagers by military officials. If the Salvadoran government is Mexican daily Uno Mas Uno Both are now dead, victims of military repression in contrast to the Reagan Administration's report the U.N. High...
...important tactic in justifying the increases in military aid has been the Reagan Administration's praise for the country's scheduled March elections. Thus the Administration gladly certified that the Salvadoran government "is committed to the holding of free elections... and to that end has demonstrated its good faith efforts to begin discussions with all major political factions in El Salvador." Indeed elections will take place, but without the discussions required by Congress. The opposition coalition of labor unions church groups and peasant organizations known as the FDR has refused to participate, fearing that they will suffer the same fate...
...fourth condition which President Reagan certified is that the Salvadoran junta is making continual progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms, including the land reform program This assertion has not been supported even by President Duarte In a report commissioned by the head of the Salvadoran junta the strictly anti Communist Union Communal Salvadoran (UCS) wrote that "the land reform program is failing, in part because of military-backed terror and murder." The significant portions of the land reform, the second and third phases, have been abandoned, so in effect the program does not exist...