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...barrio on the northern outskirts of San Salvador, a community of muddy streets, tin-roofed houses and open cooking fires, the people recall how the army swept through last month, apparently on a hunt for left-wingers. When the troops left, at least 19 people were dead. "You heard the trucks pull up," said a stout woman frying vegetables in a pan over a wood stove. "The dogs started to bark. The soldiers came marching fast down the streets. They banged on doors, and they dragged people out." It is a litany that could also describe the raids of many...
While the Reagan Administration is currently giving El Salvador $104 million in economic aid, it is also contributing $80 million to the armed forces. In October 1980, Washington sent the first of 51 noncombatant military advisers to El Salvador to sharpen the army's counterinsurgency skills. Last January, the U.S. Army began a training program for 1,466 Salvadoran troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. The Pentagon hopes that the course will solve one key weakness of the army: a lack of skilled young leaders to command small units. Says one U.S. military analyst: "The basic Salvadoran...
...guerrillas attribute their recent successes less to the quality of their guns than to the fact that they are getting effective guidance from both Nicaraguans and Cubans. Field commanders from El Salvador make frequent trips to Managua for consultations, and some travel to Cuba every two or three months to review tactics and targets...
...coup that brought the present military class to power. A leftist insurgency was brutally put down in the late '60s. But the country has never before witnessed the sustained political violence of today. The death toll has recently risen from 300 to 500 a month. As in neighboring El Salvador, much of the killing is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush the small but hard-hitting leftist guerrilla movement. In addition, right-wing paramilitary groups, like the Secret Anti-Communist Army (E.S.A.), appear to do their murderous work with the tacit...
True to their Marxist-Leninist orientation, the Sandinista leaders make no secret of their "moral support" for the Salvadoran leftists. Still, they adamantly deny charges that they are channeling arms into El Salvador, although most objective observers are convinced that at least some weaponry is coming through Nicaragua. The considerable Cuban influence in Nicaragua is increasingly resented by the populace. There are now about 6,000 Cubans in the country, including teachers, doctors, technicians and advisers to the armed forces and state security apparatus. At a suburb outside Managua last week, a local resident pointed to some comfortable-looking villas...