Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte, and provided his government with up to $1.2 mil- lion a day to fight the war.
The Reagan administration's commitment ruled out an FMLN victory, but the U.S. Con- gress's refusal "to condone either an open alli- ance with the violent ultraright or intervention U.S. troops," says Karl, prevented the FMLN's total defeat. The war dragged on, cost- ing tens of thousands of lives and devastating the economy. By September 1987, opinion polls indicated...