Word: salvadors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...struggle grows between the extremists in Central America, the Reagan Administration is coming under pressure from its allies abroad and liberals at home to try to help negotiate a settlement in the country where the stakes are currently the highest: El Salvador. Mexico has offered to act as an intermediary in the negotiations. But Mexico's motives and credibility are questionable. Privately, Mexican leaders admit that they are fearful of a Red tide sweeping through the countries to the south and spilling over their own borders. Publicly, however, they preach tolerance toward...
...they have resorted to murder to settle factional disputes in the past. The five guerrilla commanders who make up the general command of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) are the real powers behind the Salvadoran insurgency. If the guerrillas ever took power, these men would control El Salvador. The quintet...
...Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 62. Slightly built, bespectacled and grandfatherly in appearance, Carpio is known as the grand old man of the Salvadoran guerrilla movement. But despite his disarming looks, there is no mistaking the ruthlessness and tenacity of the man who heads the largest of El Salvador's five major guerrilla organizations, the Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.). In 1980, British Author Graham Greene was impressed by Carpio when they met in Panama. The novelist pleaded unsuccessfully with the insurgent to spare the life of Archibald Gardner Dunn, the South African Ambassador to El Salvador, whom the guerrillas...
...were even born. The son of a shoemaker, Carpio became a school dropout at the age of 13. He first tried and failed to become apprenticed in his father's trade, then learned to be a baker. In 1943, at the age of 24, he joined the El Salvador Federated Bakery Workers' Society, a trade union. With Carpio's help, the group built a powerful union that in 1944 staged a successful strike, a rare occurrence in El Salvador at the time. After a second strike in 1945 and the threat of another, Salvadoran authorities arrested Carpio...
...years later, Carpio was arrested again in El Salvador. He has described how he was tortured during his nine-month imprisonment: his feet were beaten with iron bars; whippings severely damaged his left eye; and a hood was tied around his head to cause temporary smothering. In 1954 the Salvadoran Communist Party sent Carpio to the Soviet Union for several months. He returned to El Salvador to continue organizing workers. In 1959, inspired by the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Carpio formed the United Front of Revolutionary Action to train workers, students and peasants for armed rebellion...