Cuba arming Salvador insurgents, says U.S.
NZPA-Reuter Washington The American State Department said yesterday that Cuba and other Communist States were supplying arms to Leftist guerrillas fighting the El Salvador Government. The department said an arms influx to the insurgents in the Central American State was a main factor in the United States decision to resume military aid to the Government in San Salvador, the capital. “We must support the [Salvadorean Government in Sits struggle against Left-
wing terrorism supported covertly with arms, ammunition, training and political and military'advice by Cuba and other Communist nations,” it said. “The United States is therefore providing $5 million in equipment and services, including some urgently needed arms and ammunition (to the Salvadorean Government).” This aid was suspended after allegations that Salvadorean security forces were involved in the killings of three American nuns and a lay worker in El Salvador.
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Press, 20 January 1981, Page 17
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