Word: salvadore
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Douglas Vasquez learned to write from a popular teacher in his native town of San Juan de las Flores, El Salvador, by tracing the alphabet in the dirt of a hill where he lives...
...hear the blather about cold war consensus, one would think that the '80s never happened. At every turn, on every issue for which there presumably was one simple, knee-jerk, anti-Soviet answer -- the MX, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, "Euromissile" deployment -- there was deep division. And practically every time, liberals, so wistful now for the easy choices of yore, made the wrong choice...
Similarly on the other great cold war issue, Third World revolution: The real enemy, the Democrats protested, was not communism but deprivation. In the great debates over El Salvador and Nicaragua, liberals insisted that to see these conflicts in cold war, East-West terms was again to miss the point...
...Central America were not racked with injustices, there would be no revolution," said the Democrats in a 1983 televised address opposing military aid to El Salvador. "There would be nothing for the Soviets to exploit. But unless those oppressive conditions change, that region will continue to seethe with revolution -- with or without the Soviets...
...foreign policy team)), we rely on him for every crisis around the world that needs a Washington angle." The queries pour in from the New York office all week long: What is the Administration's point of view on Peru? How much foreign aid do we give El Salvador? Did Italy pressure the U.S. to curtail prosecution of the B.N.L. banking scandal? "I seldom know the answer immediately," says McAllister. "But I know whom to call. My computer Rolodex has . . . let me see . . . 857 entries...