SALVADOR DEATH-SQUAD LEADER BECOMES RIGHT'S HOPE

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• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
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• Publication Date: March 10, 1982
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Special to The Christian Science Monitor his grass-roots support comes from the offi--t
Santa Ana, El Salvador dally disbanded, but:, still' very active,
The dashing, tough-talkingpolitician gal- anticommunist paramilitary -- -group;-
By Joseph Boyd ais, and retired military officers Much of STAT
becomes
Militarv: middle class back ultra-rightist
vanizes his- crowd-in this small western El ORDEN, once a force of 100,000.
Salvador town to cheer, chant, and sing ARENA is the only party to take its cam
His rousing political rallies --,held every paign into towns and cities with publicized
weekend in country towns and cities look rallies. Other candidates say they won't an-
at' first blush' like-signs' of democracy -nounce rallies in advance-for "security
.
flowering in this nation run by a joint min= reasons"
tary-civilian.junta: Former US Ambassador to El Salvador
But this popular politician'! is'Ro$erto Robert ? White has. called d'Aubuisson a
d'Aubuisson, a former Army major , who "pathological killer" and accused him of or-
built his reputation . as chief of, the dering-the assassination of , Archbishop Os-.l
paramilitary esquadr6n.: de muerte - the car Arnulfo. Romero, the Roman Catholic-
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death squad. US diplomats are not hopeful primate of . San Salvador, in 1980.
that a victory by his Nationalist Republican D'Aubuisson denies the charge.
Alliance (ARENA) in elections. March 28 ARENA's leader was a major in the
would signal a green light for democracy.- armed forces and. head of the Salvadoran.
At a rally here in San ta; Ana the loud- National Guard intelligence service until e.
speaker blares the ARENA marching song, was cashier in 1978 for brutality an p o -
which says,:."El Sal- a coo .
vador.. will be the A1..t It ou g:h.
the main target ? ?? - countryside, he is a.
of D'Aubuisson's communists and Cif'SC13be6 . target of opposition
wnrrc hnwcv.r nra fhc M -1 no suuMforrncinno, - .+ as well:. In Sari Sal-.
the Reds." rhrist~n fempG S ~ayl#il ^: Wing support in the;
tomb where-.we bury' , U'.Aubulason ImXS.#fle. ? D'Aubuisson is.. win
crats the.."right wing of-the,: Communist town. His convoy was attacked while return- _l
D'Aubuisson.. calls: Ithe-Ch ristian, Demo- San Sebastian.when guerrillas attacked -the i
country in cooperation.with theArmy. dAubuisson' aborted a helicopter landing in.
which governs ; he -following-< day;.
guerrillas,.- btit: the y'~". ?"' '?'G "Ri?"'~ ~" "' .:.party headquarters 1
Christian Demo- red on the. 'inside were machine
cratic Party;(PCD), gunned Feb, 26,,TheJ1
He flays the ruling party for the-nation's right arm in the,assault,:but there is some economic crisis,. asking.the crowd. "Do you question about; how the injury was inflicted..
live better than you did before the Christian since-he was traveling in an armored station,
green outside and red inside ' on D'Aubuisson was, slightly wounded; in the.
Democrats came to powerz~ Y . - . wagon and the attack came : from,the;left
"We will let.* the Army. go: and finish off side.-,-
the communists in. six months". if-ARENA :.About l0WWpeopie waited for d.kubuirson-
winsd'Aubuissonsays :_. in- his.Santa:Ana campaiga.office, a?large:.?
On his. speaker's. platform,-.ARENA'S---white Spanishcolonialstyle house onaquiet--,
leader looks like-a hero - lean`and hand- downtown street the day this reporter- vis-
some. He appears younger than 38 and. still :ited
cuts the image of the dashing young officer r D'Aubuisson drew-a welt-dressed crowd -..
He wears a pistol on his hip. Muscles bulge young men and women in designer jeans;_ when;. he -: takes ~,off his -- -embroidered 'ladies with`pearls around their. necks: -and`'
guayabera -shirt, "exposing a- tight T-dirt *- middle-aged -- men in fancy : embroidered
emblazoned with the party emblem s s, ' guayabara shirts They. ate pastries: and
D'Abisn' bld'aigntl ad dkch whil wtig fo th lade
:uusoso camp syenran puneainreirer
ARENA among, those who- oppose the re- ernment's land reform program They'are
form pathbof the `Christian Democrats= and' afraid titeywiillose their plan ntatzons.. some
the':leftist revolt: His earliest' supporters u already '' have ,lost their land and want it'
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