Reborn American Giants

"Victor, we have been dealing with each other for a while, and there is something I have always wanted to ask you..." Garcia sat on the sofa, leaning against the back of the chair, like a hibernating bear.

He lay still and said to Victor, who was sitting opposite him.

"Brother, if you have anything you want to ask, please just ask me directly. I won't hide anything I can tell you. Of course, you can't tell me anything. Don't blame me..."

"Haha, of course," Garcia chuckled, "but I think this question will not embarrass you..."

He rolled his eyes twice before speaking: "I think everyone knows some things clearly, so I'll just say it straight away. What is your attitude towards our military? To be honest, although someone asked me to ask this question

I’m asking you, but I also want to know.”

Victor sat up straight. Since Garcia asked such a question, it seemed that he deliberately approached Victor on a mission.

El Salvador is currently governed by the Christian Democratic Party. As president, Jose rules the country. Behind him is the support of the Americans. He has a firm grasp on all kinds of military and economic assistance from the United States to El Salvador.

With financial power, the military could only follow his baton. For a time, it seemed that it was extremely prosperous and had great power.

However, this also created a situation where Jose still needed the army to resist the military attack from the Marty Front, so he was not able to deal with those military generals who had lost their political rights for a while.

This has led to the existence of many hard-line military elements in the military who are extremely dissatisfied with the current civilian government, and they no longer dream of pushing the political system in El Salvador back to the previous one where the military said everything.

In the good times.

These generals came from the military and can be regarded as the most stubborn conservatives. The biggest characteristic of conservatives is that they do not want changes. Therefore, in their view, Jose's political system reform is completely sacrificing the interests of the military.

"Haha, my attitude? Brother, tell me, what attitude do you think a small city council member like me needs and what attitude should I have?" Victor looked at Garcia meaningfully, took out a cigarette and lit it.

After that, he asked in a playful tone.

Garcia waved his hand and didn't mind that Victor didn't answer his question directly. "Victor, I'm just a messenger. You are also a smart man. I won't hide it from you. This question is about replacing the people in the Ministry of National Defense."

People ask you about it.

You don't know some things, but I can tell you clearly that since you set up that trading company with Antino's gang from the 4th Armored Regiment, every move you make is in the eyes of the Military Intelligence Section.

I pay more attention to you than you thought. Do you think that after you deal with Francesco from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Damiani from the police station, everything will be fine? Haha, you think too simply.

La."

"Should I be honored?"

"Hey, I don't know whether it's an honor or not. I only know that the trading company under your control has provided 600,000 US dollars in funding to the Fourth Armored Regiment in the past two months. In addition,

In addition, the cost of officials of all sizes to open up the transportation line is also close to 400,000 US dollars. Calculated based on the transaction volume of De Oro Trading Company, plus those funds in circulation and those that have not yet been sold.

The amount of goods makes it obvious that you are doing business at a loss."

"It seems that you have investigated everything clearly, but these seem to be my personal business, right? Does the Ministry of National Defense still care about my personal income?" Victor faced Garcia's words, but there was no hesitation at all.

In panic, he blew out a puff of smoke, and his entire face was hidden behind the blue smoke, making it impossible for Garcia to know the expression on his face.

"Hey, you are worrying too much. You may not understand what I mean by this." Garcia didn't see the look he wanted to see from Victor, so he lifted his back off the back of the sofa and sat up, "You

This guy is good at everything, but he's a little too shrewd and too suspicious. He thinks about someone all day long.

I'm planning on you... Well, let's be honest with you, the Independence Palace is currently brewing a bill to reduce the local self-defense forces. Countless pairs of eyes are staring at this matter closely. Therefore, the Ministry of National Defense is planning on reducing local self-defense forces.

This sudden cooperation between civilians and the military is a bit sensitive, so you have to forgive them, right?"

Victor had heard of the bill that Garcia mentioned about reducing the local self-defense forces. Due to the civil war, El Salvador maintained a military force of about 320,000 people. At the same time, at the local level, it also maintained a military force of about 320,000.

The local self-defense forces, which number about 50,000 people, spend 47% of the government's total revenue on military expenditures alone every year, reaching about 3 billion U.S. dollars, not to mention the large amount of aid from the United States.

However, the civil war has caused a further shrinkage in the export of bulk agricultural products such as El Salvador's coffee and cotton. At the same time, in terms of frontal warfare, at the end of last year, government forces suppressed the guerrillas under the control of the Farabundo Martí Front to Essensunte.

The northern mountainous area centered on Pec Province.

Since the frontal military pressure is no longer as great as when the guerrillas launched general attacks one after another at the beginning of the civil war, some people in the Independence Palace and the National Assembly believe that it is still necessary for the Salvadoran military to continue to maintain such a situation.

A huge army.

The government can completely reduce local self-defense forces, which do not need to be deployed on frontal battlefields, and invest the cost of maintaining this paramilitary force in directions that require more funds.

Of course, these are superficial statements. The deeper reason is that everyone now knows that the guerrillas have become of little use. Compared with the government forces supported by Americans, although the guerrillas also have Soviet and

With the support of the Cubans, Castro ordered his men to find ways to deliver weapons and various supplies to the Marty Front.

However, El Salvador is located in Central America, and several surrounding countries are basically governed by right-wing forces. Therefore, under the command of the United States, they naturally adopted a severe blockade and attack attitude towards the Cuban government's support for the Salvadoran guerrillas. This

This also led to the fact that this kind of support was only a drop in the bucket and extremely difficult.

Therefore, now that the military pressure brought by the guerrillas is not the biggest problem, the civil servants who control the power in El Salvador need to start worrying that the army may use the guns they have to intimidate them, who are powerless.

The civilian government has gained political rights.

In politics, this kind of opening cannot be opened casually. If this kind of problem is not prepared at the beginning, after the military has solved the guerrillas and came with the heroic appearance of ending the war, the National Assembly will have no way to resist the military.

requirements for political rights.

Rather than doing this, it is better to strike preemptively. As a result, this plan to "reduce local self-defense forces" began to circulate in the political arena in El Salvador, and Victor, who was very concerned about political trends, naturally heard about it.