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After returning from a two-year stint in Mexico in 1981. McGinn discovered that attitudes in the U.S. towards the Sandinistas had changed drastically. Civil war had flared up again in El Salvador, and the U.S. was coming down hard on the Sandinistas for lending support to the Salvadoran rebels...
Rather, he says, the culprits were death squads and paramilitary organizations that operated with the tacit, if not overt, support of the U.S. trained army. Salvadoran was a minimum of human rights violations to be expected in a civil...
...Human rights violations were largely attributable to death squads," says Snyder, echoing the opinion of members of the Salvadoran church and human rights organizations. "These squads operated with the consent and even participation of the military. Their violations far out-weigh the real but minimal number of incidents of civil violence perpetrated by the insurgents...
With the stakes so high, the contest has developed into an uncommonly vicious, gloves-off slugfest. The Hunt organization early this summer ran a television advertisement linking Helms to the right-wing death squads in El Salvador. The commercial opened with the sound of gunfire and photos of massacred Salvadoran citizens. A picture of Salvadoran Roberto d'Aubuisson appeared, and a narrator identified him as "the man accused of directing those death squads." A picture of Helms then appeared, and the narrator said, "This is the man whose aides helped D'Aubuisson set up his political party...
Though there has not been a sustained rebel assault since January, Salvadoran military officers concede that the leftists may only be conserving strength for the annual fall offensive. At the moment, however, the guerrillas are not faring as well as they were a year ago. Recent bank and store robberies indicate that they are hurting for cash. The rebels have apparently run short of recruits: according to U.S. officials, at least 1,500 villagers have been kidnaped over the past six months to serve in the 10,000-member Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the main guerrilla group...