EL SALVADOR 17 before it succeeds. The guerrillas in El Salvador a'hd elsewhere for the moment are winning and with stepped up international support and mass opposition against the United States intervention, already prominent in several countries including the United States, the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Vietnamese examples are likely to be followed. 1 The notorious role of this all-powerful multinational in the politics of Central America is well documented. It was responsible among other things for the CTA-backed overthrow of the popular Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954. See David Horowitz, From Yalta to Vietnam. 2 According to the estimates of guerrilla sources, US advisers constituted 10-12 per cent of the officers of the Salvadoran armed forces at that time. 3 The statement specifically called for a ''new internal order" in which the armed forces, backed and aided by the United States, "will be restructured and the conditions created for the respect of popular will." 4 According to guerrilla sources, at the end of July 1981 itself the proportion of US "advisers" among the officers of the Salvadoran army had risen to 30 per cent. 5 See Newsweek, 4 January 1982, p 36. 6 Professor Ray Portsman, under whose supervision the "agrarian reforms" were launched in El Salvador, had been involved in similar type of work in South Vietnam during US occupation. 7 See the report of the Amnesty International, 15 October 1980.