Word: salvadors
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...Elliott Abrams took over in 1985. Bush's selection will indicate whether he will keep pursuing military support for the Nicaraguan contras or try more diplomatic approaches to influence the Sandinista regime. Other big items: developing a strategy for fighting Latin drug lords, bolstering the feeble governments of El Salvador and Honduras, and figuring out how to deal with Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, who remains under indictment...
...Central America that George Bush will have to deal with come January is a place that will require fresh approaches to frustratingly old problems. While the Reagan Administration can claim credit for laying the groundwork for democracy in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, all three governments remain dependent on the support of military establishments that continue to exert considerable influence in civilian affairs. Death squads with links to the military still use guns to silence critics, making a mockery of the precepts of democratic dialogue and respect for human rights. And regionwide, the basic standard of living has sunk...
...tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support, it is these countries that must live with the consequences of U.S. policies. Last month Honduras proposed to the U.N. General Assembly the creation of an international peacekeeping force to patrol its borders with Nicaragua and El Salvador. Honduras has refused to sign a new military cooperation agreement with the U.S. Perhaps more to the point, President Jose Azcona Hoyo recently suggested that the U.S. will have to "move to one side" in deliberations over Central America's future...
...Salvador a bitter civil war is in its ninth year, and the leftist guerrillas are stepping up their assaults on military and economic targets. Last March voters gave control of the legislative assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which has been linked in the past to death-squad activity. In presidential elections next March, ARENA is expected to defeat the moderate Christian Democrats, currently headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of cancer. The new government, backed by a reshuffled military, can be expected to move more aggressively against the guerrillas, which will probably mean...
...Salvador slips backward toward the violence and chaos that characterized the country in the early 1980s, it seems plain that Washington's democratic experiment has failed. At best, the U.S. has leased a democracy in El Salvador that will struggle on only as long as Washington continues to pay the rent and Salvadoran officials agree to play along. (ARENA has already asserted that it does not intend to bow to U.S. demands even if it means a drastic reduction of aid.) The U.S. did Duarte no favor by emphasizing the fight against Communist guerrillas instead of reinforcing his agenda...