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...most crucial election campaign in the history of El Salvador came to a bitter end last week with a stream of venomous accusations. The major parties indulged in a final orgy of personal insults, cries of corruption and charges of treason. The torrent of abuse not only reflected the riven society in El Salvador, where more than 30,000 people have died for political reasons since October 1979; it sadly showed how difficult it will be to build a unified nation in the future...
...head of the civilian-military government since December 1980, Duarte is the inheritor of El Salvador's accumulated political and economic woes. Among the reforms that Duarte sponsors are the nationalization of local banks, the continuation of the land reform that has expropriated the country's largest agricultural estates and turned them into peasant cooperatives, and a gradual purging of human rights violators from El Salvador's 22,000-member security forces...
...television documentary, which included an interview with his mother Joaquina declaring "that boy never caused me trouble in anything. He was always very faithful and loyal." In another television program, D'Aubuisson used charts explaining how Marxists take over a country and suggesting Christian Democrat complicity in El Salvador's subversion. Said D'Aubuisson: "We are at the mercy of these noxious people...
...strength of D'Aubuisson's appeal was the major surprise of the election campaign. At ARENA'S final election rally, held last week in the cavernous national gymnasium in downtown San Salvador, some 16,000 supporters jammed the building, decked out in red-white-and-blue ARENA hats and T shirts. The audience cheered wildly when D'Aubuisson appeared, looking pale and nervous after a recent death threat. He was flanked by three heavily armed bodyguards. At the rally, three mariachi bands competed to see which could present the best campaign song. The winning entry declared...
Other political parties in the race were less dramatic, but equally scathing, in their attacks on the Christian Democrats. The National Conciliation Party, traditional vehicle of El Salvador's landed oligarchy, called Duarte "the symbol of betrayal." One member of the Salvadoran Popular Party, a business-oriented conservative group, noted the recent visit of a Christian Democrat leader to Switzerland and asked rhetorically: "What do they have in Switzerland? Banks with numbered accounts." The small Democratic Action Party, drawing support from middle-class professionals and businessmen, labeled the programs of the Christian Democrats as "fascist...