EL SALVADOR.
abroad there is no confidence among the Salvadoran opposition that life has become any safer. Recently leaders of the Christian Democrat trade union, the UPD, which receives funds from the American Union federation AFL-CIO, who challenged the far right over the new death squad activity truncated constitution and the agrarian reform were killed. Those still alive keep constantly on the move to avoid the death squads.
'One in every fifty Salvadorans deported by the US Immigration and
Naturalisation Service (INS) may have been killed after returning to El
This statement by an immigration lawyer reported in the
Salvador'.
International Herald Tribune on January 26, 1984, is just one in a series of revelations in the last few months about the activities of the death squads in El Salvador.
Philomena O'MALLEY
The former American ambassador to
Salvador, Robert White, has revealed that the Reagan administration, who delivered a one-month 'ultimatum' to the Salvadoran government alout the death squads in
December, had in fact known about their
While it appears that some of the top military, who are heavily implicated in the death squads, have been transferred
USA-
One political observer quoted in the same Financial Times report pointed out that "To fight the elections you need 3,000 signatures to register a political party. Who is their right minds, left of the Christian Democrats, is going to sign such a list in the present circumstances?'
So much for the Salvadoran 'progress on human rights' and 'free elections'.
EL SALYADOR activity for some years.
In testimony prepared for a House sub-committee he reported that the government knew in 1981 that Roberto d'Aubuisson, a leading rightwing politician and presidential candidate, had ordered the assassination of the archbishop of San Salvador in March 1980. White also accused the government of covering up
PANA MA detailed information on Salvadoran exiles in Miami who have been directing the activity of death squads in their own country (International Herald Tribune, February 4-5, 1984).
As well as these accusations of a cover up, the US government is also charged with returning Salvadoran refugees to face possible death. The lawyer cited above, Peter Schey, director of the Center for Immigrants' Rights, states that, of 2,500 refugees whose fate on return to Salvador has been checked, 50 seem to have been killed although he adds that it has yet to be verified they are in fact the
CUBA
S