We Will Win the Fight

Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine guns that were lying on the table in his party's headquarters in San Salvador. Roberto d'Aubuisson, the candidate of the far right, is determined these days to soften his image as a gunman. He rose in Salvadoran society by attending his country's military academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army by the new government....

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