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Ana Treng
Some 2,500 Argentine mothers and their supporters gathered in Buenos Aires' main square April 30 on the fourth anniversary of their first demonstration demanding in- formation on the whereabouts of "disappeared" family members. While the demonstration-dubbed a "Silent and Sorrowful March"- was the largest since the 1976 coup, its significance is even greater than its size implies.
Rio de Janeiro's third annual May Day concert was marred this year by the premature explosion of bombs designed to harass Brazil's labor movement and increase the climate of fear and insecurity. The first bomb exploded outside the Rio Centro Stadium where 10,000-20,000 people-most of them workers-were gathered for the event.
Let me assure you that we are [providing military assistance to El Salvador] with the greatest prudence and caution and with the lessons of the past in mind. El Salvador is not another Vietnam.
We feel a strong obligation to learn as much as possible from our participation in this strange and difficult war. Though we have never fought one quite like it, this con- flict may be typical of future struggles in which we might, sad to say, become in- volved.
El Salvador Conference Carlos Fuentes, noted Mexican writer and former ambassador to France, was the keynote speaker at an April conference on El Salva- dor co-sponsored by NACLA and four other organizations. About 700 people gathered at New York City's New School for Social Research to hear about the current situation in El Salvador and to debate the implications of U.
CENTRAL AMERICA Liliam Jimenez, El Salvador: Sus problemas socio-economicos (Casa de las Americas, 1980). Write for price, cloth, 238 pgs.
Nearly two years into the Nicara- guan revolutionary process, the Church continues to be an arena of conflict between the country's so- cial forces. While most sectors, in- cluding the Church, were united in the struggle against Somoza, the Church hierarchy has become less cooperative in the face of the San- dinista government's clear commit- ment to true social revolution.
Steven Volk
One of the first acts of the new Republican-dominated Senate Judi- ciary Committee was to create a Subcommittee on Security and Ter- rorism. This article, written by a NACLA staff member, examines the subcommittee and the threat it poses to NACLA and all progressive organizations.
Judy Butler
U.S.
NACLA Report has been hampered in its objective by limited economic resources as well as cultural animosities that date back to the colonial period. (The Coast was colonized by England which helped its inhabitants successfully fight Spanish incursions for almost 400 years.
The president seems determined to add still another sorry chapter to the chronicle of Yankee imperialism in Central America. The Administration apparently has chosen Honduras to be our new "Nicaragua"--a dependable satellite, bought and paid for by American military and economic largesse.
Amid falsehood and sophistry we have reached the extreme in which the campaign against Nicaragua is carried out in the name of democracy. It is no small paradox that the destruction of a democratic re- gime is proposed in order to save it from future risks or that an attempt is made to create a chain of peripheral dictatorships to maintain the welfare of the central democracies.