THERE is growing evidence that US military intervention in Central America is imminent.
In response there military counter-mobilisation tries have become convinced that the Reagan administration is planning to move militarily within a matter of weeks.
who defends the right of the peoples of Central America and the Caribbean to determine their own future.
On November ancented US administration officials leakpress Secretary of Haig askedune Pentagon "to study a show of force' атонно Cuba. The York Times reported on 5 be 'a show of airpower, large naval quarantine the ment of arms to the island. a general blockade as part of an act of war, and an invasion Dy American and Latin American Leak The 'leak' came in the midst meeting in Lalill American army chiefs. number of Latin American diplomats in said that the conference focussed specifically on El Salvador and on US charges of Nicaraguan and Cuban involvement there.
October the Latin American Weekly Report reported that Argentine armv commander Genera has been a general in Cuba and The governments of these counThe call is to mobilise in action everyone Leopoldo Galtieri was to visit in November 'to discuss the final details of plans to send Argentine troops to Salvador'. fact, several Latin American if they might join in some ku ur mulary overallull.
Worse It is the development the civil El ot Wal Salvador that explains the US increased inreal military intervention in the Even administration spokespeople now acknowledge that the military situation in El Salvador FMLN/FDR-led guerrillas between the and the Junta's army is in 'stalemate'. Other reports indicate that, from Washington's point view, the situation in El Salvador is much worse. In recent weeks the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has widened its areas oil and Pictures on this page are from 'El Salvador: Repression and Revolution', an exhibition by Camerawork and the El Salvador Solidarity Campaign. Pioture at top of page shows dealt sharp blows to the Jila On the strategic Puente de Oro Golden Bridge) over ine River was demolished This greatly commandos. complicated transport and troop movements between the capital and southeastern El Salvador.
The guerrillas have inflicted heavy dISO damage to the country's electric network, one-third On 7 November FMLN units staged heavy installaallacks ul tions in San Miguel, the city in the country, and the main provincial capital in eastern El Salvador. and Washington on the diplomatic calling for a political solution to the conflict. On 7 October, Nicaraguan leader, Daniel the peace proposals the Assembly of the United Nations. Failed In Nicaragua also the Reagan administration Is faced with a revolution ad rapidly. Wash valle ington's two-year effort to pressure and DIDe Sandinista National Liberation tront (HSLN) into blunting the capitalist of the anniversary the over throw Somoza Daniel Ortega declared before a rally of half a million people in Managua:
•From this day on, the FSLN, the and all the people of Nicaragua are deciding the rules of the game. We are not going to permit the capitalists to keep on playing TOBINO WILd OuT revolution.' Arrests Ortega reaffirmed this stance on 22 October when he announced the arrest of four big-business leaders. They were charged under a provision the September economic emergency decrees. guard at US embassy in San Salvador. Camerawork 121 Roman Rd, London E2. Telephone 980