Word: salvadore
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...obtained in arms bazaars around the world, there was little doubt that the weapons were shipped from Nicaragua. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez firmly backed Cristiani in blaming Ortega, who did not even bother to deny the charge. Instead, Ortega noted the many flights that originated from San Salvador's Ilopango airport to ferry weapons to the contras fighting his government. "So what's the scandal?" he asked...
...Managua last week to stop arming the F.M.L.N. Salvadoran diplomats closed their Managua embassy on Wednesday and left the country in protest over the SA-7 shipments. But they stressed that relations were being suspended, not terminated. Ortega pointedly did not suspend his government's ties with San Salvador. The flap between the two countries will probably blow over...
...much graver danger to the region is that El Salvador will slip completely into chaos as the government discovers that it cannot control even the streets around its offices in San Salvador. "The military is showing itself to be incompetent," says a U.S. official. "Unless there's some radical and magical improvement, the guerrillas are going to keep coming in at will. It's really nightmarish...
...soon be conjured up out of the frustration of ultra-rightists in the Salvadoran army and government who are considering a campaign of terror to suppress the insurgents. Between 1980 and 1985, confirmed killings by death squads linked to the military or National Guard liquidated 0.3% of El Salvador's population, and many far-right members of the President's ARENA party would like to resume that strategy. The rightists have reportedly stockpiled enough weapons and ammunition to pursue a terror campaign for several months after a cutoff...
George Bush journeyed to San Salvador as Vice President in 1983 to tell its leaders that the U.S. was prepared to drop aid to the country if they did not act against the death squads. He could make the same speech today. The country's center, enfeebled by vast poverty and the effects of a decade of war, is crumbling under the prodding of the offensive. The future for El Salvador looks to be a free-for-all between a buoyant and rearmed F.M.L.N. and generals willing to make the country a boneyard...