Playboy Interview: José Napoleón Duarte
November, 1984
The rebellion in El Salvador, according to Ronald Reagan, is the pivotal conflict in what his Administration perceives as a life-and-death battle against the Soviets' "evil empire." With a population of only 4,500,000, a land mass the size of Massachusetts and an economy that has barely entered the 20th Century, the war-swept Central American nation is where the United States must, in the words of the White House, draw the line against revolution in the Western Hemisphere.Since 1980, n...
