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...Aubuisson's ARENA party, on the other hand, stressed an aggressive mixture of patriotism, anti-Communism and free enterprise, along with an all-out war on guerrillas who refuse to accept a general amnesty. As one ARENA document put it, "Nationalist Republicans believe in God, the country and liberty, in that order." D'Aubuisson would like to reverse the bank nationalizations carried out in March 1980 and replace the state-run peasant cooperatives of the current land reform with individual holdings...
...source of his country's problems. This is actually an invasion of international Communism. El Salvador is not the principal objective. The objective is Central America and the Caribbean basin, and eventually the U.S. By 1969 the Communists had established violent groups to damage the economy in our region. The most violent attacks-kidnapings, terrorism-had great backing from the mistaken political thought of Mr. Jimmy Carter [a reference to Carter's tolerance for the Sandinista-led revolution in Nicaragua]. That is why Nicaragua is a pro-Soviet government today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela...
...they'll at least succeed in removing nuclear weapons from Britain and the continent "I thin that we should all disarm now and not wait for the other side to do so first. The survival of the human race is much more important than the difference between capitalism and communism...
This concern about the spread of Communism in the region is clearly legitimate. Thus the conflict, in its possible consequences if not its origin, is indeed part of the East-West rivalry. But a stark East-West emphasis obscures the deeper reasons for turmoil in the Central American isthmus (see following story). Much of the unrest in these countries stems from indigenous problems, most notably, as former State Department Official William Bowdler puts it, "the legacy of exploitation and abuse of the impoverished majority by the privileged few." By underplaying these factors, the U.S. often ends up backing regimes that...
...possibility of more Marxist regimes in the hemisphere, and they chide the U.S. for its cries of alarm. In addition to their conciliatory rhetoric toward Castro and Communism, the Mexican authorities have allowed Cuban military aid to reach the Guatemalan insurgents across Mexican territory. There is little doubt that Mexico is playing a double game in the region. As a senior Guatemalan official put it last week: "Mexico thinks that by throwing meat to the Cuban dog, it can avoid being bitten itself...