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...course, been no secret that the Reagan Administration was hoping for a victory by the Christian Democrats. It has also been open knowledge in San Salvador that the Venezuelan Institute of Popular Education (IVEPO) has been used as a conduit for foreign assistance to the Christian Democrats. This became visible last February when Duarte's ill-funded party suddenly began using glossy posters, lavish billboards and slick TV ads. D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) retaliated by running a newspaper ad accusing the Venezuelan government of meddling in Salvadoran affairs. On Saturday, in another full-page...
Although few people believed Duarte's demurral, even liberal Democrats conceded that CIA funding of the Christian Democrats was probably necessary to cancel out the money being poured into ARENA coffers by right-wing oligarchs in El Salvador and in exile in Florida. It is not unusual for governments to back their favorite candidates in other countries: West European parties in power often send funds to sister groups abroad. Nonetheless, the recent revelations unsettled quite a few members of Congress, who grumbled that the CIA had once again neglected to keep Congress fully informed of its activities...
...guerrillas have. A vociferous critic of the murderous crews, Duarte pledged during the campaign to set up a commission to investigate the most notorious killings. Duarte's progress will be carefully monitored by Capitol Hill, where many legislators have tied their support of further military aid for El Salvador to progress in diminishing the violence. Congressional outrage has been fueled by the Salvadoran failure so far to bring to trial the accused killers of four American church women in 1980 and two U.S. land-reform advisers...
Duarte's task is complicated by the fact that so much is unknown or unprovable about the squads. Even the death toll is a matter of debate. Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the archdiocese of San Salvador, claims that during the last six months of 1983, 2,615 civilians were killed "by the army, security forces, and paramilitary squads allied with them," up from 2,527 during the first half of 1983. This year, the organization contends, the tide is still rising: 241 dead in January, 269 in February, 407 in March. Though State Department officials...
...during the same month a year earlier, 279 in January 1982, and 665 in January 1981. Though the toll hit 100 in March, Administration officials claim the long-term trend is downward. "The figures are all guesstimates because there isn't any system of justice left in El Salvador," says Richard Millett, a Central American expert at Southern Illinois University. "Anybody can be killed with virtual impunity. You do not want to investigate because you might find out, and finding out can itself be fatal...