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Perfect because the oppression in El Salvador is so obvious, the regime so gross and unsophisticated. Three U.S. Congressmen visited the country to see for themselves; their conversations with Salvadoran refugees were reported to the House in March of last year. One transcript read like this: "If people were caught in the village, they (the Salvadoran army) would kill them. Women and children alike. She said that with pregnant women they would cut open the stomachs and take the babies out...She said they would flee and they would give their children cold tortillas and a little bit of sugar...
...State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. "What is at stake is the radicalization of the Western Hemisphere by foreign powers and by interests that are being manipulated from Moscow and Cuba." The contention rests largely on stacks of "captured documents," unlabelled, vague and contradictory papers allegedly seized by the Salvadoran military; believe these few hundred sheets of paper, which have been picked apart by even the Wall Street Journal, or believe the backgrounds of the men who have declared their membership in El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front-There's Guillermo Ungo, a prominent Social Democrat, and member of the first...
...Americans rallied outside the Pentagon to protest our involvement in El Salvador; it took years before one-tenth that number bothered to cry out against the war in Indochina. The combination of fairly aggressive media coverage, the involvement of the Catholic church, and the degeneracy of the Salvadoran status quo was enough to focus attention for a few months on the nation, and enough to check our government's action to some extent. But it was a very few months, and the popular indignation never transcended the case of El Salvador. Once again the left had failed, won a skirmish...
...Leonel Gomez, a former official in the land reform program, adds land reform has strengthened the hand of the military, "whose sole concern is for increased U.S. military and economic aid, for increased power, and an increased ability to rule, to kill, and to corrupt." The story of El Salvadoran land reform is the story of a score of other U.S. efforts in other countries--piecemeal change offered when the time for piecemeal change has passed, a last-ditch attempt to keep the ruling elite intact...
...companies. And the "hit list" theory propounded by Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig holds that the advance must be checked at every turn or there will be dire consequences for the free world and the natural gas fields of nearby Mexico. If one holds that the El Salvadoran government--and most of the other governments of the region--are intolerably repressive, it is a damning indictment of our multinational economic system. Like pathetic Britain in the dying days of her empire, we are wringing dollars out of, quite literally, the blood of peasants...