ElSalvador - Latin America's Vietnam

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Park St, London NI. Tel: 01-359 2270. phy, 'have supplied fighter-bombers, transport planes, and large quantities of Uzi submachine guns All this military aid is for a purpose cynically described by the regime as 'counter insurgency'. It goes towards the murder by right-wing terror groups of peasants and workers; in fact anyone, clergy, who opposes the El Salvador is the same size as Wales, yet according to the Red Cross, 9,000 people have been killed in political murders. The vast majority of these murders have been carried out by rightDespite the terror tactics of the regime and 'reforms', El Salvador's rulers have not been able to halt their growing isolation within the country. They have faced a tide On 22 January 1979, 300,000 people marched with the Revolutionary Coordinating Committee of the Masses, demanding an end to the repres butchered TWO hundred Throughout last year, this pattern was to repeat itself, demonstrations were followed by assassinations, which were followed by increasThe regime assassinated the Catholic Archbishop Romero because of his outspoken views, and 400,000 people turned out for the funeral which became a mass demonstration against the regime. The size of such demonstrations is remarkable considering that the population is As the mobilisations and eventually strikes and open military action against the regime increased, the opposition became more and more the Farabundo Marti NaFront was formed, and by December the entire political-military opposiThis is the background to the present insurrection in El Salvador. Its history is dramatically recorded in the solidarity campaign pamphlet.

of American intervention now Salvador. Last week Presidentelect Reagan visited Mexico. His gift to the Mexican president was a rifle. It is all too symbolic of the people of Central Copies of 'El Salvador: the Latin American VietUp&p, and further information El Salvador Solidarity Campaign, 29 Islington Socialist Challenge public meeting