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...seemed more like a fiesta than a state occasion, a jubilant celebration with blue skies and sunny faces. As platoons of schoolchildren paraded through the streets waving tiny blue-and-white Salvadoran flags, vendors sliced tangy strips of green papaya for hungry onlookers. The sizzle of hot dogs on the grill mixed with the blare of Chuck Mangione jazz over the loudspeakers. When each of the 45 foreign delegations was introduced, the velodrome in downtown San Salvador reverberated with the applause of 6,000 spectators. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, his placid expression breaking into a grin, received...
...Leonel Gómez, former adviser, Salvadoran land-reform agency, February...
...roughly three-quarters of the countryside, is also a national curse. With the highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues in the country's civil...
Long under violent attack from both the extreme right and the extreme left in El Salvador, the attempt to redistribute land has followed a tortuous and sometimes bloody course and one that has cost two American lives.*Salvadoran conservatives have criticized the program for taking far too drastic an approach to the country's socioeconomic problems; the revolutionary left says that it is doing too little, too late. In the U.S., the program has provoked both skepticism and confusion over its aims and its ultimate usefulness in dealing with El Salvador's extremes of wealth and poverty...
...three-phase land reform was originally proposed within months of the October 1979 coup that installed a reformist civilian-military junta. Phase 1 of the reform, implemented at the time Duarte joined the junta in March 1980, expropriated 426 private Salvadoran estates that exceeded 1,235 acres. Phase 2, calling for the takeover of farms ranging in size from 247 to 1,235 acres, encountered strong opposition from the right, including the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) led by Roberto d'Aubuisson. Under a compromise adopted last December, Phase 2 now applies only to farms larger than 605 acres...