Central America – Cry Halt!

You don’t have to be radical to see that a major disaster is building up in Central America. You only need some common sense. Nor do you need to be a subtle thinker to recognize that the architect of this disaster is the Reagan administration—which reveals its deeply reactionary bias nowhere more clearly than in Central America:

A barely disguised and probably illegal intervention into the affairs of El Salvador and Nicaragua; propping up a government in El Salvador that tolerates (or fails to suppress) the terrorism of its own army; friendship with a military junta in Guatemala that spills quantities of blood (see the appalling details in Allan Nairn’s “The Guns of Guatemala,” New Republic, Apri...