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...training of Salvadoran troops by the U.S. began in early 1980 at Fort Gulick in Panama, where the School of the Americas specializes in teaching antiguerrilla warfare. At the urging of the Carter Administration, school officials designed a special curriculum for the Salvadorans. Formally titled "Aspects of Human Rights in Internal Defense and Development," the three-week course offers basic training in how to search and take a prisoner, with special emphasis on protecting the prisoner's rights. Some 250 Salvadorans took the course last year, and another 150 are expected to graduate this year. One recent visitor...
...eight aging patrol boats are seaworthy. The navy's futility is proved by how poorly it patrols the waters between El Salvador and Nicaragua, the route by which many arms shipments are smuggled to the guerrillas. When asked how many shipments the navy halted this year and last, Salvadoran Coast Guard Officer Nelson Angulo formed a circle with two fingers and said simply, "Zero...
Carter and his advisers sought to play down American-Soviet rivalry in the Third World, and to adapt to revolutionary change rather than fight it. But to Reagan and Haig there is unmistakable evidence-and so far the evidence has not been disputed outside the Communist world-that Salvadoran guerrillas have been receiving arms smuggled in from Communist countries through Cuba and Nicaragua. Thus El Salvador became the test case of U.S. determination and ability to draw the line against Red subversion...
...Salvadoran army managed to crush the guerrillas long-threatened "final offensive," which began in mid-January. Nonetheless, U.S. military experts concluded that the guerrillas still possessed a large cache of weapons and that the poorly trained, shoddily equipped army could not suppress the resistance entirely. A spectrum of options for helping the regime was considered, ranging from a proposal to provide massive American training for thousands of Salvadoran troops at camps in Panama or the U.S., to a plan for sending in as many as 100 advisers, who would train Salvadoran troops within the country and even accompany them...
Though 150 Salvadoran soldiers will still undergo three weeks of training this year at an army school in Panama, the task force rejected the proposal to train larger numbers of troops outside the country. The move would take too many soldiers off active duty when they were sorely needed. Sending U.S. advisers into the field was considered very risky; the death of an American soldier in a skirmish with the guerrillas would clearly escalate protests that the US was getting mired in another Viet...