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El Salvador’s scarred revolutionary face
Book paints comprehensive portrait of war, citizens
By Brooks Dareff
Of tha Emerald
Our own insurgents for in
dependence took to heart the
words of the American patriot
Patrick Henry: “Give me liber
ty, or give me death.”
For people in El Salvador,
write Robert Armstrong and
Janet Shenk in ‘‘El
SalvadorThe Face of Revolu
tion," there is no middle
ground alternative of, for in
stance, taxation without
representation. There is, quite
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simply, revolution or death
because the yoke of tyranny in
El Salvador quite literally
strangles its citizens until they
die.
The revolutionary coalition,
Farabundo Marti Front for Na
tional Liberation, uses words
similar to Henry’s to describe
the alternatives presented to
the Salvadorean people, but
instead of a lofty, heroic ap
peal, it offers a stark sombre
hymn:
Revolution or Death/It is the
daily cry/lt is the slogan of the
people/lt is the destiny of all.
The face of revolution in El
Salvador is not pretty or
glamorous or even tolerable —
even to the unsqueamish. It is
the mutilated face of the
assassinated revolutionary,
Juan Chacon, a face that once
frequently flashed a stunning,
charismatic smile.
Or it’s what’s left of a face
belonging to a woman who
was repeatedly raped and then
killed by members of the
ORDEN, the right-wing
paramilitary group. Her
features have been obliterated
by acid and left to cling
unrecognizably to a severed
head swinging
unceremoniously by its long
hair to a picket fence.
Or quite simply, the face of
revolution in El Salvador is a
skull, that grisly symbol of
death.
Two themes run concurrent
ly through “The Face of
Revolution.’’. The first — con
stant, intransient, unyielding
— is the Salvadorean oligar
chy's continual repression of
its people. It is ultimate, brutal
Book Review:
“El Salvador: The
Face of Revolution”
repression — the taking of life
— that has often taken the
form of unabashed, wholesale
murders.
The second theme — first
trusting, then persevering and
finally, desperate and
fatalistic — is the evolution of
the people’s political activities
from reformism to revolution;
the gradual, reluctant realiza
tion the Salvadorean people
have made that freedom from
tyranny cannot be had by co
opting a corrupt, lawless
system or by pressuring it
through peaceful populism,
but only by taking power, by
forcefully occupying it bit by
bit, village by village until the
oligrachies either negotiate, or
capitulate.
The first theme runs
through the book in spilt blood
that stains nearly every page
as crimson as Shakespeare's
"Mabceth.” This is no sur
prise. While Americans hear
most about the two American
nuns whose rapes and
murders in 1980 continue to
go unavenged, over the last
three years 30,000 dead
Salvadorean civilians have
screamed for justice from the
grave, including former Ar
chbishop Oscar Romero.
In British India, the power of
Ghandi’s peaceful, non-violent
populism eventually proved
greater than the British
capacity for barbarity.
But in El Salvador there
seems to be no possibility of
appealing to conscience. At
taining government reform, as
with Diem and Thieu in Viet
nam, seems impossible.
Innnocents are murdered
and streetcleaners simply
wash away the blood, and with
it, any acknowledgement of
government involvement.
While the Reagan ad
ministration is unconcerned
with quelling the first theme
running through “The Face of
Revolution,” the Carter ad
ministration, the authors
show, failed to understand the
second, that is, the intrans
cience of the oligrachies to br
ing reform or improvement of
their dreadful record on
human rights.
Those who are surprised
and chagrined at the in
surgents’ hesitancy to par
ticipate in elections, explain
Armstrong and Shenk, should
understand that electoral par
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