Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hughes abruptly began backpedaling last week, yet another development in Central America became the focus of suspicion and dispute in Washington. Only two days after the Salvadoran election, Republican Senator Jesse Helms claimed that he had uncovered "a covert plan" under which CIA funds were directly funneled into the campaign of Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte. Said Helms: "The State Department and the CIA bought Mr. Duarte lock, stock and barrel." Yet the fact that the ultraconservative North Carolinian, who openly supported Duarte's rightist adversary Roberto d'Aubuisson, took the lead on the issue...
...Christian Democrats. This became visible last February when Duarte's ill-funded party suddenly began using glossy posters, lavish billboards and slick TV ads. D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) retaliated by running a newspaper ad accusing the Venezuelan government of meddling in Salvadoran affairs. On Saturday, in another full-page ad, ARENA directly charged the CIA with channeling funds to Duarte's campaign...
...seems the very model of military rectitude. Sitting straight as a dagger behind his steel desk, hands clasped in front of him and mustache neatly trimmed, Sergeant José Antonio Rivas explains that he is the "maximum authority" in Metalio, a Salvadoran seaside village of 6,000. Several members of his ten-man army unit listen, fingering their weapons, as Rivas boasts that Metalio remains untouched by his country's cyclones of violence. "This is a very peaceful place," he says with a smile, his gold-capped teeth glinting in the light. "We treat the civilian population well...
...village of Metalio symbolizes one of the most daunting challenges facing President-elect José Napoleón Duarte: how to handle the country's death squads, those bands of killers, some with links to the military, that have terrorized the Salvadoran people as much as the guerrillas have. A vociferous critic of the murderous crews, Duarte pledged during the campaign to set up a commission to investigate the most notorious killings. Duarte's progress will be carefully monitored by Capitol Hill, where many legislators have tied their support of further military aid for El Salvador to progress...
...first half of 1983. This year, the organization contends, the tide is still rising: 241 dead in January, 269 in February, 407 in March. Though State Department officials do not contest Tutela Legal's overall statistics, they point out that the group lumps together all civilian casualties, including Salvadoran civilians killed during combat. Says a State Department spokesman: "There are two distinct problems. There are people killed by the military and paramilitary forces in bombings and shellings. We can't verify that every bomb hits the right target, but this is very different from dragging people...