Reborn American Giants

As a politician educated at the University of Notre Dame in Fort Bend, the United States, Jose Napoleon Duarte was very aware of U.S. policies and practices on Latin American affairs. Therefore, after taking control of the military government, he directly chose to surrender to the United States.

Move closer and actively suppress leftist forces in El Salvador.

The United States also greatly appreciated Jose's approach. It has strongly supported him since the Jimmy Carter administration. From the time Jose returned to China in 1979 and became the Minister of Foreign Affairs, until 1983, the U.S. government invested a total of 7.4 million in El Salvador.

$680 million in economic aid and $680 million in military aid to support the Jose-led military junta's offensive against Cuba and the Soviet-backed Farabundo Martí Front.

Now the government forces rely on U.S. military assistance to successfully blockade the guerrillas in the mountainous areas of northern El Salvador. Now the government forces are actively hoarding equipment and supplies, and Jose is preparing to launch another powerful attack on the guerrillas before the election.

, hoping to once and for all solve the left opposition forces, including the Communist Party of El Salvador, and add an important bargaining chip to his election victory.

"Victor, how did you guess it?" Faced with Victor's guess, Garcia Clemento hesitated and did not answer the question directly, but asked instead.

"Haha, Mr. Garcia, this is not something that needs to be kept secret. The U.S. Department of Defense has just recently announced the 1984 foreign military assistance, which shows that El Salvador will receive US$240 million in military assistance. At this moment, as the Ministry of Military Equipment

The younger brother of Lieutenant General Benedix and the most important military equipment procurement manager for the government forces, you are now in the United States. Apart from this matter, I really can't think of anything else that can help you."

"Well, it doesn't matter even if you know. Anyway, the domestic media has already reported this matter," Garcia shrugged and complained to Victor.

"He... Oh, sorry, dear, please forgive my recklessness," said Beola, who "glared" at Garcia because her uncle suddenly used foul language in public. Garcia said sorry.

He continued to say to Victor: "These Americans really want us to work for them in the front, but they are not willing to pay a little bit of money.

There have been a lot of complaints about the military recently, and the guerrillas are about to be wiped out, but the civil servants suddenly brought up reports that the quality of the military was uneven, and adverse public opinion at home and abroad (referring to the massacre of innocent villagers in guerrilla-controlled areas by government troops)

This has put the government under a lot of pressure. Just after the National Assembly’s vacation ends this year, it will immediately start putting forward proposals to reduce the number of troops in order to reduce the government’s financial expenditure.”

Victor thought thoughtfully, now facing the strong military pressure from the guerrillas, El Salvador has maintained a government military force of up to 320,000 people to respond to the attack of the Farabundo Martí Front.

Since the end of World War II in the 1950s and 1960s, Latin American countries have been using the "import substitution industrialization" development model to guide domestic policies, economic development, and industrialization activities mainly facing the domestic market. However, such an internal import substitution industrialization model

It has not made the expected trade diversification a reality. It has made Latin American countries overly dependent on foreign capital, especially through borrowing foreign debt to promote economic development.

The same is true for El Salvador. After the 1930s, the foreign investment attracted by the country was mainly direct investment, and the proportion of foreign debt in external funding sources was still relatively small, less than 1/3 of the total. However, starting in the 1960s, the situation began to happen.

changes, and by 1970, the two were equal.

Beginning in the 1970s, especially during the Romero government, foreign debt increased rapidly, far exceeding the amount of direct investment. By fiscal year 1979, El Salvador's annual foreign debt was US$1.176 billion, in 1980 it was US$1.608 billion, and in 1981 it was US$1.808 billion.

The US dollar has grown by more than 30% annually. To date, El Salvador owes a total of US$16.475 billion in foreign debt.

Before the civil war, El Salvador's economy mainly relied on the sales of agricultural products such as coffee and cotton. Its annual fiscal revenue was only 6.478 billion U.S. dollars. Faced with high foreign debt, the annual interest payment alone was as high as 589 million U.S. dollars.

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With 1/3 of El Salvador’s annual foreign trade income, faced with this situation, Jose Napoleon Duarte seems to have few options. He can only borrow new debt to repay old debt or defer the repayment of the principal when it matures.

This method of transferring interest into principal supports the economy of the entire country.

The original intention of adopting the "import substitution model" to develop the economy is to gradually reduce the import of foreign industrial products and gradually solve the international balance of payments problem by building its own industrial capacity.

However, too much emphasis is placed on import substitution while ignoring the increasingly serious introversion of the national economy and the loose import policy, which has led to a shortage of foreign exchange in the country. Without foreign exchange, El Salvador has had to borrow heavily from foreign countries, forming a vicious circle.

The government of El Salvador is only one step away from bankruptcy. The reason why it is still able to hold on now is entirely because of the victory of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, which pushed the sphere of influence of gcism into Central America.

The United States is afraid that El Salvador will become the second Cuba and plunge the entire Central American situation into chaos, causing the U.S. government to lose control of its own "back garden" in the Caribbean, so it strongly supports the Jose government.

"Isn't the aid thing going well?"

It seemed that Garcia Clemento had been holding something in his heart for a long time, and he wanted to find someone to vent it out to. He raised his head and drank all the champagne in the glass without putting down the empty glass, just like grabbing

Like a chicken's neck, he held the slender glass body tightly and said to Victor: "It went well? Haha, it's really going well. That's the devil. The US government has always wanted to help those civil servants and weaken us.

The power of the military..."

"Those congressmen are clamoring for disarmament, and Chairman Jose is also going to launch another military attack. Just fight, and let us soldiers die. I would like to see how long it takes to wait until Sanchez...

Lun and his gang are coming, what can these losers do to resist?

Haha, what an irony! The rabbit is not dead yet, but these people are busy destroying the bow and cooking the dog."

Beola watched with some concern as his uncle poured one cup after another from the champagne tower on the table into his mouth. In this social situation, his actions have attracted the attention of some people.

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Victor didn't say anything. After more than 60 years of military dictatorship in El Salvador, the military has developed into a monster group. Not only does it control hundreds of thousands of well-trained military personnel, it also holds power for a long time and has cultivated a large number of die-hard loyalists.

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Since Jose came to power, relying on the support of the US government behind him, he has forcibly put reins on the military monster. The military's financial power has been deprived. All military appropriations must pass the review of the National Assembly. At the same time, most of the

Officials with military backgrounds were eliminated from cabinet departments, and the government was vigorously supported by a civilian government.

The group of people who have lost power never want El Salvador to return to the past when the military was in power and no force could stop it. It seems that Mr. Garcia Clemento also has such an idea.

Chairman Jose's approach cannot be said to be good or bad. Compared with the stiff-minded military, although these newly-elected "democratic politicians" are not good at governing the country, they are very skilled in corruption and power-money transactions.

But at least it won't be like during the military government, where all opponents would be thrown into prison.

Therefore, if Victor is given a choice, think about it with his buttocks, he will also choose to dust off these "dictators" who dream of trampling everyone under their feet and letting everyone obey the command of the military's gunpoint, and then step on

Ten thousand feet.

But now, it does not prevent Victor from taking advantage of its last remaining glory before completely destroying the military.