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Article: Sad Salvador. (United States relations with El Salvador) (editorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 25, 1989
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Sad Salvador
THE United States has spent ten years and $5 billion trying to make El Salvador freer and more prosperous. Effort has not been rewarded with success. The little country's reactionary landlords still confront its revolutionary collectivists, in a war whose latest outburst has cost a couple of thousand lives in the past fortnight.
Nobody expected the left-wing uprising to sweep across the country as it has done. Its leaders' objective, they said at the start, was to push the government into serious negotiations. To that end they took over the most heavily populated quarters of the capital, and then cynically blamed the army for the resulting ...