Salvador the Democrats' especially Réform chy to some extent now posed.
up the revolutionary war? The rightist more tightly example, activists.
So, base, the revolutionists. AISO callylg duran ing relations between On government state of emergency agression by means reforms. The rightist parties linked to the traditional oligarchy now have a majority in the national assembly, and the reversal Christian reforms, the Agrarian — which did hurt tne mlerests or lne ongarWe now have an undisguised civil war regime. What sort of base does the regime for stepping COLILO' parties linked to terrorist gangs. These formations are now intertwined with the government. For many the military officers who were sent to Miami for training are known to be linked to ARENA.
That is, they are not simply military men but rightist the regime has although still a small uilc iul CoHortauol wtt the Honmilitary commander of Puerto Lempira - proof of the close workthe Honduran military and the March declared respond to the external against of been There has areas is ment Stres. tensive, The are them. against carried The rightist threatens Sovontin this Tween Usa?
think the tain tions to dinistas.
sure, nOn.r Aucacal given America's interventions (1912, 1927)?
that all united the bosses' money, certainly of the aid.
There OT will How has the turn to a more violent civil war shown been a brutal offensive by the army against precisely those where the revoluHOSS Ae SIrOHLeSLSICu Vincete The new go ern- Morazon and needs quick cesses; it needs to crush revolutionary This is an all-out ofWAlCE decisive battles in the coming months in El Salvador.
first groups rightists that were sent to the U.S. for military training have iust returned. The government is pinning its uuDco lu a lalze calciil ul In the Morazan January, such elite troops atrocities and massacres expansion CULC still mlasslye vullares.
What about the situation in the cities? Starting before se Nicaragua Nicaragua. This state of emergency was widely bourgeois opposition in Isn't there a contradiction and saying there is a link-up the USA's tervention and La PrenI don't think there's any contradiction in the suponi or mne onvaie sector for the state of emergency.
Robelo himself (leader of bourgeois MNR - SC) criticised cerbecause they in fact helped strengthen the There is also, the national quesHow can Nicaraguan not oppose an the history SUDUUIl Somoza and the other US disagreements revol onay of the Sandinistas, I think Nicaraguans against American intervention That doesn't mean that federation the cosey from she caa. doesn't accepts dollars of is still between 60 and 70 per cent of the economy in the hands of the private sector, and that*.
continue in since the very San succenmedus large-scale of the ULIiLo the elecare between that betinin Alfonso opposition declaraSanbe ulc. veluor of for this century their the programme Many accept American the tions, the revolutionary started to make a correction with respect to work in the urban areas. decided to mass revolutionary fronts, with the regain they had lost over sectors of the masses.
more repressive ment is a blow to this process. Almost the same dar Mejia was presidency, it was decided to extend the Ine Illllalizalion unions, and they jailed a OnDeI unionists, leaders oi a union as im• portant as the electricians.
There will more repression. government is one of the rigntist murder That 'counterinsurgency' policy of the U.S.
Christian only a cover that perialists use for international purposes. foreseeable future, insofar as the Sandinistas always asserted that they ICVOllDO They political opposition Cel lallliy preserve the private sector.
Recently Salvador undergone developments. military revolutionary tion have USA is many levels, and political, and gava their cent elections. Can you indicate the features of tervention?
The Reagan tion has difficulties Congress and public opinion. The SuP Salvadohe mas are en Salvador growing in the past year. The key to American intervention has been demonstrating a pretended of development and reform.
to tervention the aluncd at public must also Salvadorean revolutionary movement and controlled from outside Nicaraguans, the Cubans, the Soviet Union and even by the Ethiopians and the Vietnamese.
Salvadoran groups They relaunch the reestablish their links unions, to try to ne nuence la But the turn toward governput into the process of the the trade including be much The gangs the has led to. The Democrats the imhave La pluralist have authorised parties and the press. They intend the situation has dramatic The forces of the opposigrown. The intervening military support to the remain that inadministraopposition to has been pursuing the succeed in democratic justify incampaign opinion show the supportec by the Fighters of the El Salvador FMLN Socialist Challenge 11 June 1982 pago 9
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1973. The US navy American military team in Vina del Mar who helped to plan the coup. 31-year-old American journalist Charles Horman is about to die.
tells the true story of the disappearance Charles Horman and ths faehee pie yed by Jack the desperate attempt Lemmon) and wife neun played Oscarwinning Sissy Spacek) to no Dull. the film is Costa-Gavras who made Z and State of seige.
Like Costa-Gavras' other films, Missing is a political thriller. It tells its story in a direct and dramatic without recourse to super-political propaganOn the contrary Costa'Gavras' film. which is playing to record audiences the United States, will be accessible to tens of thousands who nave never heard Allende or the coup Chile, and who would never attend a left wing LU discuss the "lessons of Chile' It is the day after the coup in central Santiago..
Soldiers are on every street corner, stopping and searching everyone raiding houses and burning books in the streets.
The city is gripped by fear. Women are pulled out bus queues by soldiers and their trousers slashed now on women wear dresses.
Night falls and a siren signals the curfew.
Throughout the hours of darkness the city reverberates the sound of gunfire. The left being massacred. officer of the Thousands are taken for execution at the national slaulull Inside the Santiago stadium Costa-Gavras creates the atmosphere of fear and panic frighteningly real way.
harles Horman goes back to Santiago to find his wife and disappears.
Ed Horman, Charles'
father, is a middle class, middle aged businessman and devout Christian Scientist. He staurichly believes in 'the American way of life'. Together with Beth he attempts to use the US embassy officials who naturally nave excellent contacts with the Chilean military — to tind out the fate of his son. But ONEY Casull non-co-operation and 'most likely he's gone into hiding'.
Ed launches his own investigation which becomes voyage of discovery. He discovers that the : US officials, far being 'neutral' are deeply involved in the coup and its aftermath.
He aiscovers that his son, in adult life, is so understand but in the course of the investigation begins to understand. And he also discovers the fate son. Ine CITcumstances of his death and the complicity of Us officials in ordering his ex ecution.
Charles Horman dies because he knev too much. The military personnel he met in Vina ael war assumea Inal be ing an American he was and spilled the beans to him Horman's copiou notes on conversations with US officers were decisive proof of American com plicity.
The entrance to the na tional stadium Santiago. Every photo you've seen of Chile comes to life 1ne prisonels come In o. truck load. Their recep tion is to run the gauntlet troops. In the complex corridors surrounding the stadium the sound of shots and the screams of the tor tured ring out.
Ed Horman discovers what is being done to de. fend 'the American way of life' he believes in. As he leaves for home he tells the embassy officials "thank too we savem a come try where people like you can be put in jail' When he returned to the United States he filed a suit charging sixteen US officials, including the US ambassadol in Chile and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger complicity and negligence in his son's death The State Department refused their documents on the case to the court, because they in matters of security' The case was dismissed. The junta took seven months return Charles Horman's body.
has caused an precedented step the State Denartment official denials — but stil refuses to publish the relevant documents. The parallels between US involvement in Chile and their involvement El Salvador are too close for comfort.
Jack Lemmon is best known for his comic Walter Mat thau. But Missing reveals him as a great dramatic ac tor. See Missing for his performance And see it because you'll never see a more accurate or moving political thriller.
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