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Salvadoran politician and presidential candidate José Napoleón Duarte (1925 - 1990) speaks at a campaign rally in San Salvador, El Salvador, December 19, 1983. In the 1984 presidential elections the U.S. initially supported candidate Francisco Guerrero from the Partido de Concertación Nacional, National Coalition Party, PCN, who was considered acceptably moderate to both the private sector and the army. After Guerrero lost the primary election in March of 1984, Washington threw their support behind Duarte to blunt the appeal of far-right candidate Roberto D’Aubuisson and his party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA.