The critique of U. S. complicity in Central America in the paper in the 1980s read equally as scathing. As early as 1981 DC 37’s parent organization AFSCME along with DC 37’s Delegates Council passed a resolution condemning the resumption of U. S. arms shipments to El Salvador. DC 37 sent fact fighting missions and delegations to Central America in the 1980s who came back and reported in the paper that Reagan’s Central American policy increased tensions in El Salvador instead of fostering a peaceful solution. Moreover, Regan had requested an “aid package to El Salvador of $433.5 million for the [1986] fiscal year” for the government of El Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Weapons would make up the majority of the aid with some of it often used to supply the right wing death squads that commit human rights violation and assassinations attempts against labor organizers and political opposition in the country. DC 37’s Charles Hugh traveled to Nicaragua as part of New York Mayor Ed Kouche’s peace delegation. Hugh wrote in the pages of the Public Employee Press that most of U. S. foreign aid to Central America, “half a billion dollars a year—goes to the military and is not getting to the people.” He argued that as long as the U. S. government provides economic support to the contras, as long as there is that aggression, you cannot ask Nicaragua to democratize [disarm or reduce its counter insurgency forces].’”