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...major flatly rejects any negotiations with the guerrillas "because the Communists will not accept any agreement other than surrender." His idea of Communism is pervasive: it includes the liberals, the Social Democrats and, above all, El Salvador's Christian Democrats and their leader, José Napoleón Duarte. "That loco Duarte and his party are the political arm of subversion. Christian Democrats and the guerrillas represent two different tactics of Communism. The first one to get into power will call the other, and together they will give the country to the U.S.S.R." When I tell him that...
...anus: it is round and it stinks." His scatological images delight his audiences. He turns to me with a challenge: "I'll publicly bet you that I'll win the elections. If I become President, the penalty is you have to write a novel about El Salvador. If I lose, I'll give you one colón." The clear implication is that a novel of mine is worth 40 U.S. cents...
Duarte, a founder in 1961 of the Christian Democratic Party and ex-mayor of San Salvador, has been in prison and in exile. He was tortured by the military. Unlike D'Aubuisson, he does not tell jokes or use dirty words. In a country where everyone preserves a sense of humor even when beset by the worst adversities, Duarte is always serious. He suffers from a chronic sadness, deepened these days by the recent death of his mother...
...party headquarters, where he received me, it is also necessary to navigate past a barrier of armed bodyguards. "D'Aubuisson sees Communists under the bed, on the table, when he's awake and in his dreams," Duarte says. "His theory that the tragedy of El Salvador will be resolved by total war is pure demagoguery." Duarte does not enter into dialogue. He carries on a monologue. He represents, in Latin America, the most progressive trend of the Christian Democratic line. "An exclusively military solution to the war does not exist. It will have to be negotiated. But first...
...American demands? After showing me some gruesome photos of decapitated bodies, people missing limbs, others disfigured by acid-all the work of the death squads-the director says she is afraid that after March 25, when the outside world's attention will no longer be turned on El Salvador, horror will again prevail...