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...work. In fact, the far right tried to slow down the program by killing the American land reform experts sent by U.S. labor unions who were running the show. Moreover, the far right dislikes the presence of American military advisors who inhibit the more reactionary officers in the El Salvadoran army from committing atrocities...
...Hardly anybody came out for the strike they called recently. The peasants are not interested in ideology, but in justice, which is what the present regime is trying to provide. Yet the guerrillas have extensive foreign backing. Until a few months ago, they were better armed than the El Salvadoran army. Even former Ambassador Robert White, who angered right-wing Latin American governments by blasting them on human rights, has admitted that Soviet arms. Cuban advisors, and Nicaraguan mercenaries have played a part in whatever successes the left has obtained. In fact, the killing of the American nuns, at first...
...Latin America, Walters, formally deputy chief of the CIA, visited Mexico and Venezuela, and this week he plans to stop in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Though Walters conferred with Mexican President José López Portillo, neither country would confirm the meeting publicly; Mexico sympathizes with the Salvadoran guerrillas, and Walters' visit could be an embarrassment...
Indeed, there was growing concern, in Congress and in Europe, that the Administration is turning a blind eye to the Salvadoran junta's faults and is prepared to offer military assistance without qualification. To quell such fears, the State Department issued a statement last week emphasizing its support of "basic economic and political reforms, including elections in 1982-83," in El Salvador...
...Team members are not combat advisers, and congressional approval is not required to send them to El Salvador. Nevertheless, the proposal is generating controversy in both Washington and San Salvador. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the State Department last week that he could not go along with the plan. Salvadoran government officials fear that if they accept the teams they will be admitting they need outside help to defeat the guerrillas. Still, leftist guerrillas are beginning to skirmish again with Salvadoran soldiers, scarcely a month after the defeat of the insurgents' self-proclaimed "final offensive." Authorities in San Salvador...