Word: salvadorans
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...Central America called for by the Kissinger commission and endorsed by Reagan. El Salvador is not likely to get more money unless progress is made in curbing the right-wing death squads there. Congress is expected to fight Reagan's attempts to avoid the practice of tying Salvadoran aid to regular certifications of improvement in that country's human rights record...
...success of U.S. policy in Central America rests in large part on the performance of the 25,000-man Salvadoran army. After repeated setbacks at the hands of antigovernment guerrillas, it has been widely criticized as a 9-to-5 fighting force lacking both skill and determination. Last week 4,000 U.S.-trained Salvadoran troops were combing the fields and volcanic mountains of the rich agricultural department of Usulután, seeking to dislodge elusive units of the Marxist-led Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), whose hit-and-run tactics have virtually crippled the economy of the strategic...
Sitting inches from the prop wash of his UH-1H ("Huey") helicopter, Salvadoran Army Colonel Julio César Yánez López stared with satisfaction at the thin plumes of smoke coiling across the scrubby landscape below. "We're fighting terrorists, not guerrillas with a noble cause," he announced as the chopper settled to earth alongside a cornfield crackling with flames. "We're going to integrate Usulután back into the economic life of this country...
Winning scattered firefights is the first and least of the goals of Operation Well-Being, a protracted campaign that involves two other U.S.-trained Salvadoran battalions, the Atonal and the Bayoso, along with the Atlacatl unit. Their sweep through Usulután was a long-awaited extension of El Salvador's ambitious National Plan, a combined civilian-military offensive that aims to drive the guerrillas out permanently. Conceived with the help of U.S. military advisers, the National Plan was initially tested, with mixed results, last summer in the neighboring department of San Vicente. The plan's success...
...Washington, the aid vs. human rights debate over El Salvador will likely increase in stridency this week, as Congressmen return from recess to Capitol Hill. Anticipating the controversy, the Administration last week released a Salvadoran human rights assessment asserting, as the Administration has done in the past, that "important progress has been made." Among other things, the report claims a drop in the rate of violent Salvadoran civilian deaths during the latter half of 1983, to 104 monthly, but offers a blunt admission that there has been a "significant increase" in casualties attributable to death squads. The Administration...