ENTRAL AMERICA

Demands that the U.S. cease inter- se tion in Central America and that baad Mulroney government speak . “gainst aid to counterrevolution- terrorizing Nicaragua'were voiced Ng a march and rally outide the Consulate in Vancouver Satur- Y. Organized by the newly formed Men 0° Anti-intervention Commit- : Which includes in its ranks trade os and Central America sup- Be ues. the rally called for an end Bnd ae the Nicaraguan “Contras” a e U.S. led bombings in El Sal-

- Organizers note that the Con- War has taken the lives of almost tis Nicaraguans during the last hea years and destroyed some 55 Was Centres and schools. The rally Side fe cded by a 24-hour vigil out- € Consulate.

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of the U.S. Reagan administration — is improving its human rights record, said Hercus.

In spite of that, there are always people to take the place of those assassinated or incarcerated, said Hercus, describing the march on the “International Day of Solid- arity with El Salvadoran Women.”

Organized by the three committees for mothers of the disappeared, the march of mainly women dressed in black wound its way through San Salvador’s streets calling other women out to mass.

Following the mass, a commemoration for mothers who have died in the struggle for human rights in El Salvador, the march proceeded passed the presidential palace to a rally in Parque Cuscatlan, the major park in the capital.

There speakers aired the key demands of the march: open the clandestine prisons, end the tortures of political prisoners, make public the fate of the disappeared and grant “complete amnesty” to all prisoners.

Speaking for the delegation, Hercus pointed out that a visit to El Salvador last year by Canada’s Minister for External Relations, Monique Vezina, resulted in an $8-million aid package from the Mulroney government. The minister had claimed human rights violations had decreased in El Salvador, a claim that is “clearly not true,” Hercus told the rally.

That reality was underscored by the tes- timonies of women in prison visited by the delegation.

Nineteen-year old “‘Rosa” told the dele- gation: “I can’t show you the marks. I can only tell you that I was tortured for 10 days

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Now an inmate of Ilopango women’s prison, Rosa was detained by police last November and questioned for 10 days under the notorious “Decree 50.” During that time she was not allowed to eat, sleep or visit the toilet and was questioned non-stop. She contracted a case of pneumonia from an air conditioner that continually blew cold air into the room.

“Tsabelle” told a similar tale of sophisti- cated torture. She was blindfolded during her ordeal, but recalled being questioned by someone who spoke Spanish with a “‘for- eign accent.”

She could not say if the questioner was American, but human rights groups say the increased sophistication of interrogation techniques — which goes hand in hand with increasingly deadly military search and destroy missions under U.S. military guidance — are certainly the result of U.S. training.

Depite the continuing repression of the human rights and liberation movements in El Salvador, the signs show that support for the Duarte regime is crumbling, Hercus said.

She noted that the trade union and pea- sant support for the movements has grown to include those which until recently sup- ported Duarte. The Popular Democratic Union, consisting of unions affiliated to the U.S. AFL-CIO, has recently shed its reac- tionary members and is now a participantin the recently-formed UNTS, a trade union coalition opposed to U.S. presence in El Salvador.

Hercus said labor action has grown consid- erably since 1984, with more than 100 strikes rocking the country last year. This year a peasant’s co-operative has vowed to stop grow- ing cash crops for landlords and will instead engage in subsistence farming, she said.

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