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...cattle country of western El Salvador, the billboard stands against the wide sky and the grazing flatlands. But its confident statement of hope has become a bitter irony to the farmers at nearby El Canadá, a cooperative set up under an ambitious land reform program begun two years ago. It is planting time at El Canadá, but the cooperative has been unable to obtain credit to buy seed and fertilizer. The fields are fallow, the oxen idle. No one has yet received a day's pay. Unless the tomato and corn crops are planted in the next...
...problems at El Espino, a coffee cooperative on the outskirts of the capital of San Salvador, are of a somewhat different sort. El Espino's shareholders and their families, who number more than 1,000, have just been told that the government is planning to confiscate their best acreage to build four new military barracks and a training ground. José Eduardo González, 47, raised his six children on the plantation, and he is distraught about being forced to move. Like many of the farmers, he admits that living conditions were sometimes better under the old oligarchical...
...problems of the campesinos are not entirely new. From the start, El Salvador's land redistribution program has suffered from poor administration, insufficient credit lines and corruption. But the election on March 28 of a constituent assembly dominated by right-wing parties has raised fresh concerns. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and president of the new assembly, vigorously attacked the program during the election campaign, and last week he declared that he favored a "moratorium" on land reforms. Advocates of the program fear that D'Aubuisson will quietly...
...United States should concentrate all its efforts on pressuring d'Aubuisson to moderate his policies and bring about constructive negotiations with the left. If the Administration is so keen on giving money to El Salvador, let it be for specific economic projects...
...some type of conciliation will take place between the guerillas and the new government. But probably, the right, with Washington's blessings, will continue on its extreme course. Then, after more bloodshed the left will come to power and the U.S. will lose whatever influence it had in El Salvador and might have preserved, had conciliation taken place...