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...condemnation and potential military action in Panama, but is ignored in countries which, for our own strategic interests, continue to enjoy our military aid. In Uruguay, for example, government threats scare voters from approving investigations of human rights abuses under the military regime of the 1970s; in El Salvador, soldiers drive peasant voters to the polls at gunpoint...
Early-morning commuter traffic clogged the intersection when the armored Cherokee station wagon eased to a halt at a red light in downtown San Salvador. A moment later a man darted forward, placed a bomb on the car roof, then fled just before the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some 70,000 lives over the past nine years...
Garcia, a lawyer who taught at the University of El Salvador before he fled the country for Mexico, said El Salvador has been torn by abuse and struggle for many years. He said the human rights violations began as "low-intensity warfare"--political imprisonment and the assassination of individuals who critcized the government...
Speaking in Spanish through an interpreter, Garcia said that the $4 billion the U.S. has sent to El Salvador, much of it in the form of military aid, has made it difficult for opposition groups to protect human rights...
Garcia said that the right-wing party in El Salvador that won the country's national elections in March supports a policy of "total war" against FMLN. However, he said that FMLN's powerbase in the country has grown, giving the country opportunity for peace...