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When Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week to present the case for continuing economic and military aid to El Salvador, he was in a difficult spot. Under a measure enacted late last year, the Administration must provide Congress formal certification every six months that El Salvador is improving its record on human rights and expanding economic benefits to the poor in order to maintain foreign aid to that strife-torn nation. But reports had reached members of the committee that human rights violations were still taking place...
...Administration makes its pitch for aid to El Salvador...
...week of the brutal torture of a Salvadoran volunteer for the Green Cross, an international relief agency. The worker had been arrested by Salvadoran security police on charges of providing supplies to the guerrillas. Imprisoned for several days in a secret, soundproof room at police headquarters in downtown San Salvador, he was stretched on a rotating wheel, beaten severely and forced to swallow lime. The victim was also strung up by his hands and feet while his genitals were squeezed in a wire vise...
...Sandinistas blame many of their problems on the U.S. Government, which discontinued most economic aid early in 1981 because it was convinced Nicaragua was abetting the leftist insurgency in El Salvador. Washington has pressured international lenders not to loan Nicaragua money. The U.S. says it wants to improve relations with the Sandinistas, but talks have repeatedly foundered over the question of aid to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Though State Department officials have denied that they are stalling, the U.S. doubts that negotiations with the Sandinistas would achieve anything. The U.S. may also be waiting to see what the contras...
...leadership will probably be easier relations with Washington. Despite a warm personal relationship with Ronald Reagan, Lopez Portillo has discomforted the U.S. by indulging his ambitions as a spokesman for Third World concerns. He irritated Washington last August when, with France, Mexico recognized the Marxist-led insurgents of El Salvador as a "representative political force" in that country. Lopez Portillo called for negotiations with the guerrillas, thereby undercutting U.S. support for the civihan-military regime. He has frequently offered to act as an intermediary between the U.S. and Cuba over the crisis in Central America and has espoused the cause...