Reborn American Giants

Not long after the Christian Democratic Party's national congress was held, the opposition party also held a national congress. At the meeting, Robert Dabson delivered a passionate speech, which seemed to inject new "vitality" into the opposition party.

It gave them new hope and made them seem to be wearing a red ribbon symbolizing reconciliation and salvation.

When all members of the party gathered together for a meeting, they had a completely new look. They were no longer the ragtag group that lost the National Assembly election a few months ago.

The entire conference was held in a festive atmosphere, with a huge and simple banner hanging above everyone's heads: Victory...

The enemy's celebration was naturally matched by the dire situation of our own side. In the following time, when Jose Napoleon Duarte convened a meeting of his party colleagues, the atmosphere and mood formed a sharp contrast.

More than 3,000 party members gathered at the conference center in La Paz. If they support their leader with enthusiasm and wholeheartedly, the atmosphere at the scene will be so enthusiastic that it will almost break the roof.

But at this moment, it seems that something is missing, no spirit, no ambition, and no courage. The surrounding walls are empty, there are no promotional banners or anything like that, and the equipment and decorations on site are also cold. Perhaps their only function is

It was to emphasize how depressed and decadent the people gathered for the meeting were.

As a result, Mendieta, who was originally assigned by Jose to be in charge of this meeting, had to face a major challenge. His original task assigned by the chairman was to "package" the meeting and boost everyone's morale.

However, he had to talk to the assembled party members one by one about the messy reports in the media with increasing agitation.

He kept apologizing, explaining, reasoning, talking about the bright future of the party, and deliberately blamed the poor venue arrangement on "someone else", specifically the party chairman Embry.

Oney Hernandez.

According to Mendieta, the party chairman has cut the budget for various activities to a minimum, taking into account the recent situation. The rumor spread is that the party chairman wants this meeting to be low-key. In fact,

But he wanted to embarrass the leader.

The possible split at the top has made the already panic-stricken lower-level members of the party even more dissatisfied, and various issues have not yet been resolved.

“The ruling party expresses doubts about the leadership of José Napoleon Duarte,” was the headline of the first relevant report in the Observer.

Just one day after the "question session" that took place at the Palace of the National Assembly, it was not just the Observer that evaluated the political incident he encountered as a disaster. Almost all other newspapers joined in.

, and even many members of parliament from the government side, including, of course, the opposition parties.

The betrayal of Angelo Adams caused quite a stir in the party. At first, everyone was a little confused, and then they united to share the hatred. But at lunch time, everyone was eating the exquisite food on the plate and reading the newspaper.

This feeling disappeared when they criticized the leaders of the Christian Democratic Party. While they kept putting food in their mouths, they vented their frustration and dissatisfaction. Of course, the target of their venting was aimed at one person -

Jose Napoleon Duarte.

By the afternoon, journalists gathered at the National Assembly Palace gathered around some unnamed senior party officials and invited them to express their views on the current situation of the President. Almost everyone's arguments were very similar, that is, they claimed

I have warned the chairman not to let down his guard. Everyone wants to distance themselves from the current bad situation, but he has no responsibility.

Before the ship sank, the crew on board couldn't wait to escape.

At the same time, the office of the President of the Independence Palace, which was in despair, also began to look for a scapegoat. Of course, no newspaper reported the news. The spokesman of the office said that the responsibility lies with the party headquarters, which means that the news came from the party headquarters.

The person responsible for what was leaked was party chairman Embrioni Hernandez.

However, many people turned a deaf ear to this explanation, and their collective instinct prevented them from listening to the chairman's explanation.

News Corp., owned by Bossa Nobrnes, has long been seen as loyal to the Christian Democratic government, wrote Le Monde, a newspaper he owns.

"Yesterday, the chairman experienced another failure. Different from previous setbacks, this time it came from within the party, which has to make people feel frustrated. Originally, Chairman Jose should have made good use of this opportunity to calm down the growing

There were strong doubts about his leadership, but one cabinet colleague described his performance as "weak and unseemly". After the disastrous

After information about the high-level party meeting was leaked, the ruling party encountered another Waterloo. Faced with such a dilemma, the party needs to conduct a very realistic analysis and receive comfort and assurances of regrouping. However, in the words of a party representative

"What we're getting is a cliché that's been used in past elections, slightly modified," he said.

The official view is this. If Jose was in dire straits before, then he will have to endure more hellish experiences later, and they will execute him bit by bit.

"This is a process that every candidate in the general election must go through, but this is the second major information leak in recent times. Now let us wait and see how Chairman Jose will respond..."

This is the closing sentence from the "Journal of San Salvador".

Amid the turmoil, Victor left San Salvador and received a call from the geology professor from the National University of El Salvador who was hired by Cecil. Together with the staff sent by Texaco, they visited Acajut on the spot.

In the La area, a site was finally selected as the site for the construction of the refinery.

For Victor, this is a real big deal. In Victor's view, controlling El Salvador's energy is the top priority. This will bring him extremely important rights and status. Almost all of his plans at this stage are

They are all centered around this matter.

After the Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan in December 1979, international oil prices began to fall regularly. All of this was a response by the United States. Richard Pipes, an expert on Soviet issues at the National Security Council of the United States, suggested lowering oil prices to hit the Soviet economy.

, the Underwood administration adopted this recommendation.

The United States used the excuse of sanctioning the Soviet Union for sending troops to Afghanistan to persuade Arab countries to increase oil production and lower oil prices to sanction the Soviet economy.

By early 1983, King Fahd visited HSD and was persuaded by the United States to increase oil production. Saudi Arabia, as OPEC's "mobile oil producer", was responsible for regulating the energy production and prices of OPEC countries, increasing daily oil production from 2 million barrels to

6 million barrels, rising to 9 million barrels by the end of 1983, and rising to 10 million barrels by the beginning of 1984. Saudi Arabia increased its oil production five times in one year.

At the beginning of 1983, the international oil price was US$32 per barrel, but by the beginning of 1984 it had dropped to US$13-14 per barrel, a drop of nearly 2 times within a year. According to Victor, there was a possibility of further decline.

All energy companies have suffered heavy losses in this drop in oil prices, and they have begun to shrink their industries and abandon some secondary markets to protect their most important assets.

In Victor's view, now is a good time to clean up the American energy companies in El Salvador. He can take advantage of the price advantage brought by the geographical location of Grenada's Golden Bay oil field while other companies are busy taking care of themselves, and unify the entire El Salvador energy market in one fell swoop.