Duarte: Prisoner Of War
UnpublishedJanuary
1986
Volume:
20
Number:
1
Report
SINCE THE SPRING OF 1984, THERE HAS been no serious debate in Washington about what is happening in El Salvador. It takes an effort to recall that there was once a time when the halls of Congress rang to polemics about human rights, land reform and negotiated settlements.
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STICKING TO THE SCRIPT ON JANUARY 14, IN SUB-ZERO TEMPERA- tures, three members of the U.S.
UNTIL 1979, EL SALVADOR, LIKE MOST of its Central American neighbors, was left by the U.S.
WITHIN THE SPACE THAT HE IS ALLOWED by the United States, Duarte must also confront a second line of veto power-the armed forces. At the most obvious level, this reflects the traditional domi- nance of the military in Salvadorean society.
TO A LARGE EXTENT, THE CHRISTIAN Democratic Party owes its successive election victories in 1984 and 1985 to the presence and effec- tiveness of the FMLN on the Salvadorean political scene. El Salvador is a country which traditionally had voted for the Right, with or without the help of fraud.
Marc Cooper
When Jose Napoleon Duarte offi- cially kicked off his presidential cam- paign and began to emerge in early 1984 as the central political figure in El Salvador, U.S.