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U.S. financial aid is pouring into El Salvador at the rate of almost $1 million per day. Since 1980, that country has received nearly $1 billion to reform and modernize its political, economic, and military systems.
(Archived document, may contain errors) 137 April 10, 1981 EL SALVADOR'S MARXIST REVOLUTION INTRODUCTION Within the last few months, the events in El Salvador have come to the forefront of American foreign policy. Since the bloodless coup in October 1979, which oust ed General Romero and many of the leaders of the armed forces, El Salvador has undergone an escalation of violence from Marxist and rightist groups result ing in approximately 10,000 deaths during 19