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Nevertheless, Theroux includes some passable anecdotes, like one on the inappropriate naming of South American cities: "None of the Lagunas Verdes was green...Progreso in Guatemala was backward; La Liberated in El Salvador, a stronghold of repression in a country where salvation seemed in short supply." And his descriptions of the class stigmas on the trains and his interview with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges are superb...
...after Helms in characteristically timid fashion. Typically, writes Powers, "Helms was not charged with what he did, but more narrowly for having lied about it." Asked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1973 whether the CIA had tried to overthrow the government of Chile or passed money to Salvador Allende's opponents, Helms replied, simply, "No sir." Perjury...
Millions of Mexicans from rural areas have fled the countryside to find work in the burgeoning industrial areas along the Texas border as well as in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City. Some 64% of the population now dwell in cities and towns. For a fortunate few, like Salvador Reyes Garcia, 28, the trip to the city has been worth it. Nine years ago, Reyes left a remote village in the Chihuahua desert for Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. There he landed a job as a sewing machine operator in a clothing factory at the minimum
That was precisely what troubled the military rulers of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Their leaders feared that a domino effect might engulf them in a wave of leftist insurgency inspired by the success of Nicaragua's revolt. In all three countries, leftist terrorism has been on the rise, largely because more peaceable democratic opposition groups have been ruthlessly suppressed. Though the junta has denied any plans to "export our revolution," Defense Department and intelligence officials are urging that the U.S. resume arms shipments to the three nations, which have been cut off since the Carter Administration began...
...danger of more civil war seems greatest in El Salvador, the Western Hemisphere's most densely populated country, where 5.3 million people are crowded into an area no larger than Massachusetts. The government of President Carlos Humberto Romero has been locked in combat with three well-organized bands of leftist terrorists. One such group, the Armed Forces of National Resistance, has raised $40 million in the past two years by kidnaping foreign executives and holding them for ransom. Even more threatening from the government's standpoint is the widespread support won by the 70,000-member Popular Revolutionary...