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...obsession with security. Until recently, he and his closest lieutenants always wore hoods at meetings to hide their real identities even from one another. Carpio was known only by his nom de guerre, Marcial. His daughter Guadalupe, also a Communist organizer, was killed during a political demonstration in El Salvador in 1980. The guerrillas' campaign in El Salvador, Carpio says, "has been a struggle of twelve years. Twelve years of spilling the blood of very valuable comrades, hundreds of the most valuable of the people, in this prolonged...
...Palestinian immigrants to El Salvador, Handal began his revolutionary career in 1949, when he became involved in student politics while studying law. In 1950 he joined the Communist Party. In 1952 he was exiled, first to Honduras and then to Chile, returning to El Salvador only after a government amnesty for political offenders. In 1960 he was exiled again to Guatemala. In 1961 he returned to El Salvador as a member of the Communist underground. He organized the Unitary Front for Revolutionary Action, attached to the illegal Communist Party, and became the Communist Party's secretary-general...
...would-be economist turned university dropout, Villalobos was a left-wing student leader. In 1971 he began to form clandestine groups to foster "armed struggle" in El Salvador. In 1973 he officially declared the existence of the E.R.P. and led it underground...
Sancho, who was born in Costa Rica, was also a student radical in San Salvador. In the late 1960s, he began to organize workers, peasants and students into clandestine armed cells in the department of San Vicente. He worked aboveground as a professor of art history for the Salvadoran Ministry of Education. In 1970, Sancho formed "The Group," a political-military organization that brought together radical students and radical Christians. Like the other organizations, FARN bankrolled itself through kidnapings; Sancho is accused of responsibility for the 1978 kidnaping-assassination of Japanese Industrialist Fujio Matsumoto, among others. By one estimate, FARN...
Reagan has sat, wondering at the irony of it all, as his briefers have traced how captured American M16s, their serial numbers clumsily altered, were shipped around the world from Viet Nam to the rebels in El Salvador. The President has observed the painstaking accumulation of evidence that Moscow's clients have used poison gas (the deadly "yellow rain") in Southeast Asia and that the Soviets have themselves employed it in Afghanistan-perhaps out of frustration that all their troops and equipment have been unable to break down a stubborn resistance by the mountain tribes to military occupation...