Word: salvadors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador, the U.S.-backed right-wing government has spent the last two weeks battling leftist insurgents in one of the fiercest rebel offensives of the decade. Media attention has focused on the possibility of a rebel victory, allegedly presided over by the Soviets and their Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. No one mentions the possibility that the insurgents might be independently fighting to overthrow a brutal right-wing regime and to assert El Salvador's right to self-determination...
...Bush Administration clings to the notion of Soviet domination in Central America in the face of international and domestic pressure to cut off military aid to El Salvador. This pressure comes at a time when the influence of right-wing death squads--some closely affiliated with President Alfredo Cristiani's ARENA party--is increasing. The most outrageous of the recent human rights abuses include the killing and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter, at the hands of 30 men in military dress...
After 10 years and billions of dollars in aid, El Salvador's military has little to show for itself but a reprehensible human rights record that includes forced recruitment of boys as young as 12 or 13; the destruction and evacuation of border peasant villages; arrests, tortures, and disappearances of human rights advocates and civilians vaguely suspected of left-wing activity; and deep, friendly relations with the death squads...
Instead, it appeared a standoff was continuing--and would continue through the night--inside the El Salvador Sheraton Hotel's VIP Tower, more than 17 hours after rebels surprised the government with their assault in an upper-class neighborhood of this capital...
...half-hour before the 6 p.m. curfew, Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, arrived at the hotel...