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PRESIDENT Bush has only now begun to select a foreign policy team for Central America; Vice-President Quayle calls for "the elimination of human rights." Meanwhile in aid-dependent El Salvador two important initiatives--one toward the end of the eight-year civil war, another toward a new Central American peace--mark serious steps for regional autonomy...
...York Times has recently pointed out, American policy aims differ greatly from what El Salvador has in mind for its own future...
...address the continued disintegration of the Central American economies under spiraling debts and unfundable wars, the five Central American nations have come together in a modest plan for peace and the subsequent reduction of financial pressures. El Salvador is the site of this new regional pact, the highlight of which is Nicaragua's promise of free elections next February in return for the expulsion of the Contras from Honduras...
...United States is facing a similar crisis in El Salvador. Last year American aid to El Salvador doubled that nation's budget. And extraordinarily generous support for the Salvadoran military, besides encouraging corruption and removing any high-level army incentive to end the war, sends a message to all Salvadorans--left, center and right--that El Salvador is not in charge of its own policies...
Unprecedented as they were, the talks between El Salvador's rebels and its political parties, including the ultra-right ARENA, ended near Mexico City last week without a breakthrough. Yet in offering to lay down their arms and join "the political life of the country" in exchange for military reforms and a six-month delay in the presidential elections scheduled for March 19, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) clearly scored a coup. By advancing a negotiable proposal, the rebels managed to put the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government -- and especially the army -- on the defensive...