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...what the majority voted not to say that bothers us. They refused to include a mention of America's own involvement in the repression of people's movements in El Salvador, the rest of Latin America, and other places around the globe. The argument may seem cliched, a cheap shot. But to us it underlines the real nature of Solidarity's shining example...
Like Solidarity, the men and women who fight in the Democratic Revolutionary Front of El Salvador represent most of their countrymen. Like the Poles, they face repression of the severest sort. In fact, one can argue that the situation in El Salvador, where 12,000 dissidents were murdered last year, is in some ways worse than the status quo in Poland, where so far the authorities have gone no farther than jailing union members...
...there is another similarity. Like Poland, El Salvador is a client state, but of the United States. It is our weapons, our capital, and our military advisers that make possible the repression of people's hopes and dreams...
...repression in Poland, then surely one should favor American action to end its own repression. Indeed, it seems to us that cleaning our own hands will make us much more effective at pressuring others. If our allies and the non-aligned nations see us practicing in El Salvador what we preach in Poland, then they may summon the courage to back our efforts elsewhere. At the very least, we would rob the Soviets of their most powerful--and most correct--propaganda weapon: that we are often as bad as they...
...Sandinista leadership is betraying itself as insecure, arbitrary and determined to hold on to power, come what may. Says one Western diplomatic analyst in Managua: "They've made up their minds they can't come to an understanding with the U.S., largely because of the El Salvador question. I think they are willing to take this country down to a subsistence economy and absolute misery if necessary...