DCI WORLDWIDE BRIEFING - EL SALVADOR COUNTRY TRENDS

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• Document Release Date: May 24, 2006
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DCI WORLDWIDE BRIEFING - EL SALVADOR
Country Trends
Government Forces:
21,000 armed forces
9,000 security forces
30,000 total
Armed Guerrillas: Estimate 5,000 fulltime, similar
number militia
Government: -- 80-85 percent turnout in March 1982 constituent
assembly elections.
-- Confiscated large estates under Phase I
currently benefit some 30,000 peasant
families.
-- Distributed private plots under Phase III
currently benefit 32,000 peasant familites;
some 35,000 land titles have been awarded
since March 1980.
-- Far right opposition to the reforms in
May/June was successfully countered by
President Magana and the military in
conjunction with protests from the labor
sector and the Christian Democratic Party.
-- Armed Forces are improving their combat
performance against the guerrillas as seen by
the taking of prisoners, increased small
patrol operations, better coordination and
planning of major sweeps, and better use of
air and naval support.
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Extreme Left: Estimated strength: 4,000 to 5,000 under arms,
perhaps equal number of part
time militia, unknown number
of supporters and
sympathizers (perhaps 10% of
rural population).
Estimated or claimed civilian victims due to non-combat political
violence:
Embassy Statistics
CIA Estimates
1980:
no uniform data
perhaps
7,000
0
1981:
6085
perhaps
9,00
1982:
2479
perhaps
4,000
Civilian deaths attributable to:
(CIA Estimates)
Left
Right
Government Non-Combat
Operations
1980:
50
percent
25
percent
25
percent
1981:
40
percent
30
percent
30
percent
1982:
45
percent
35
percent
25
percent
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EL SALVADOR
Political
Parties
PAR
PDC
PCN
PPS
AD
Guerrilla
and
Terrorist
Groups FPL
FARN
ERP
FAL
PRTC
Labor
Groups
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EXTREME OR
OR VIOLENT LEFT MODERATE POLITICAL FORCES* VIOLENT RIGHT
Democratic
Left and
..Center Conservative
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FESTIAVT-
SCES
FENESTRAS
UTC
FECCAS
UPD
FESIUCON-
STRAN S
CTS
CCS
UCS
ACOPAI
CGS
Independent
Unions
Business
Groups
Alianza
Produc-
tiva
ANEP
FENAPES
. POP
UGB
La 11ano Blanca
Anti-C ,.,unist
League
Death Squadron
*I.ncludes all political forces which do not use violence and
which are not in coalition with the extreme right or extreme
left.
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