On Salvadoran instability
Experts’outlooks disagree
By STEWART WRIGHT
Of the Emerald
Two contradictory views of
violence and instability in El
Salvador were presented during
a conference on Latin American
human rights Friday.
John Blacken, director of the
state department's Office of
Central American Affairs, and
Ruben Zamora of the Salvador
an leftist organization, Frente
Democracio Revolucionario,
discussed government reforms
in El Salvador, American
intervention and the country’s
right-wing government.
Blacken said during the
country's agrarian reform pro
gram, all plots of land of more
than 500 hectares were claimed
by the government and returned
to peasants in smaller allot
ments.
While Blacken admitted the
plan hasn’t been a complete
success, he maintained it had
taken the land out of the hands
of the oligarchs and returned it
to the people. The leftists
believed the plan probably
would increase the power of the
government, he added.
And if the government falls,
violence would increase
because the country would be
taken over by right-wing ex
tremists, he said.
But Zamora disagreed.
“From our perspective the
question is why the American
government is imposing its will
on the Salvadoran people. What
he (Blacken) is implying is if the
American government with
draws, the junta will fall.”
Zamora said it’s difficult to
accurately count the number of
leftists in the country because
they meet only in small groups
for no more than 10 or 15 min
utes out of fear of security
forces.
Blacken claimed that during a
leftist strike in August of 1979,
about 85 percent of the workers
showed up on the job.
Zamora said, however, that
the government told factory
workers they would lose their
jobs if they struck, and told
drivers they would lose their
licenses if they didn’t drive.
Asked why members of
security forces who commit
atrocities aren’t prosecuted,
Blacken said the government
lacks an effective court system.
“If a judge hands down an
indictment, the person con
cerned is out within three days,”
he said.
Blacken also said land reform
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crowd against a one-sided view
of human rights that doesn’t
consider the United States’ na
tional interest as well as basic
human rights.
"The pursuit of human rights
is in our interest," Blacken said.
“The question is where to strike
the balance.”
And unless a balance is
struck, “it will be impossible to
influence U.S. foreign policy,”
Rofe said.
The panel ended with a small
speech by moderator William
Wipfler, director of the National
Council of Churches’ human
rights office.
“The human rights movement
was not started by Carter, and I
don’t think Reagan will sup
press it,” Wipfler said. “I am
convinced that we’re in the
midst of a human rights revival.
That movement is a universal
reality of our time
“You have to decide whether
you will become part of it or be
overtaken by the movement.”
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“It’s representative of the
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undoubtedly came from
government security forces and
were probably confessions ex
tracted through torture.
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