U.S. pushes war drive after Duarte victory
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On May 6, Jose Napoleon Duarte, won a run-off election victory over be buried and easily forgotten. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson by a margin of 54 to 46 percent. The contrast between the two candidates has been played up in the news accounts around the world.
Roberto d'Aubuisson, after all, is the notorious leader of the death squads. He reputedly ordered the murder, in squads. 1980, of Monsignor Romero, El Salvador's popular archbishop and an outspoken critic of the Salvadoran government.
Duarte, by contrast, has a reputation as a moderate. He had been the apparently victorious presidential candidate in 1972, when the military again committed massive electoral fraud to prevent his victory.
Immediately following the recent election, the first prisoner exchange took place between the Salvadoran government and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). On May 23, moreover, five national guardsmen were tried and convicted in the critics? 1980 murder of four American churchwomen in El Salvador.
Perhaps the Salvadoran government is changing?
Death squads with a human face The election of Duarte is being to Washington. played as the Reagan administration's best card to convince the American people that its growing intervention in El Salvador is not intended to prop up a regime responsible for over 40,000 murders, or for the smashing of unions and peasant associations.
Duarte, while punishing the Salvadoran soldiers who confessed to the murder of the churchwomen, at the Salvador. same time retained General Vides Casanova as minister of defense. According to a U.S. government report, Casanova was responsible for the cover-up following the brutal murder and rape of the
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