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...month later Duarte incautiously gave vocal support to a coup by young, reform-minded Salvadoran army officers. When the revolt was crushed, Duarte was hauled from his sanctuary in a Venezuelan diplomatic residence, held incommunicado and brutally beaten. His cheekbones still bear indentations from that torture. Telegrams from Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon and Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh brought about his release; Duarte spent the next seven years in exile in Venezuela...
Duarte faces a host of other problems. Partly because guerrillas have destroyed numerous power lines, bridges and crops, and partly because so much Salvadoran capital has left the country, El Salvador's economy is in ruins. Local experts consider it a triumph that the country showed no decline in growth last year; in the previous four years, the economy shrank...
Duarte also faces problems within one of his own political bastions, organized labor. In the past three years, Salvadoran prices have risen 98%; the government has allowed wage increases of only 20% for private sector workers and 10% for the public sector. Prior to the March 25 election round, bank and water works employees in San Salvador struck to protest the wage situation. In that climate of frustration there is danger that the guerrillas will achieve their goal of winning substantial support within the labor movement...
...departmental commanders are pledged to support the new government. Those known to favor D'Aubuisson are expected to be transferred to harmless administrative jobs or to embassies abroad. One reason for the armed forces' anticipated compliance is the promise of additional U.S. military aid; last week the Salvadoran army began taking delivery of $32 million worth of ammunition and field equipment...
With more military supplies coming in, the Salvadoran army may pursue the antiguerrilla war more aggressively. According to the Reagan Administration, the rebels are stockpiling Cuban-supplied armaments in anticipation of a major offensive in the fall. The combination of Duarte's political victory and the Administration's gains on Capitol Hill are worrisome to a Salvadoran Jesuit scholar, who says, "The electoral process has been a tremendous success. My problem is what will come out of it. I'm afraid our recent advance toward greater democracy will only lead to a more sophisticated war." Duarte, whose...