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Crimson: Last week, the United States issued two visa denials to prominent Central Americans, one being the Nicaraguan Minister of the Interior, the other an El Salvadoran leader. Administration officials have stressed both of these acts as demonstrating its even-handedness in dealing with Central Americans--one person being a leftist, the other a rightist. How would you both interpret the visa denials? What kind of signals do those denials send to the respective governments in Nicaragua and El Salvador...
Washington's worries have been compounded by another ominous development: rising violence by rightist death squads. For the past month the Reagan Administration has stepped up pressure on the Salvadoran government to clamp down on the murderous crews, but last week's signals were confusing at best. First the State Department denied a U.S. visa to Roberto d'Aubuisson, president of El Salvador's Constituent Assembly and head of the right-wing ARENA Party, some of whose members have been linked to the killings. The next day, however, President Reagan vetoed a bill that would have...
...military officials are especially disappointed that their training has had little effect. On paper, the programs appear successful. Since the arrival of American advisers in 1980, close to 10,000 Salvadoran soldiers have been taught combat basics. The reality is less encouraging. At the regional army headquarters in San Vicente, for example, a dozen U.S. advisers must turn recruits into jungle fighters in five weeks. Courses cover marksmanship, explosives and ambush prevention, but the lessons are not easily understood. More than half the enlistees are illiterate, and many of the others can barely write their names...
Nicaragua did not necessarily cut the arms pipeline because of U.S. pressure. According to the rebels, they have been so successful in seizing weapons that additional aid would be superfluous. Though F.M.L.N. claims that 90% of its arms have come from the U.S.-trained Salvadoran army may be inflated, there is little doubt that the guerrillas have all they need. The insurgents claim that during the first five months of 1983, they seized 1,700 assault rifles, 27 mortars, 20 grenade launchers and 37 machine guns. Rebels refer to their rifles as "my gift from Reagan...
Meanwhile, the Administration is voicing increasing alarm about El Salvador's notorious death squads, which, according to El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, have killed an estimated 40,000 people during the past four years. In a speech to a group of Salvadoran business leaders two weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering warned bluntly that U.S. aid would be halted if the Salvadoran government did not make a greater effort to stop the killing. When Pickering's predecessor in San Salvador, Deane Hinton, delivered a similar speech in October 1982, he was reprimanded by the White House...