Politicians decided that “US foreign policy could be made under the assumption that the unbalanced system can never be effectively addressed by Central Americans. The United States then continued to integrate Latin America into its political, economic, and military orbit. While the findings suggested the challenges and limitations that come with authoritarian rule, American dollars steadily increased their presence in El Salvador, increasing investments from 18 million in 1950 to 31 million in 1959, without much attention to the regime's governing style. (___) In El Salvador, the American task was easy, the United States, to encourage stability, understood as limiting insurrections, simply had to support those in power, the military, the landed oligarchy and therefore the dictators. Nixon, while serving as vice president in 1955, himself arguing that the question in the Latin American region was “how far dictatorship is necessary,” declared, “we must deal with the [Latin American] governments as they are and work for a period of time towards greater democracy”. (Ambrose) But the idea that the United States was involved in Latin America to encourage the creation of democratic institutions that could effectively implement reforms and allow for public debate seemed far-fetched considering the way Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon approached the coup which followed in 1960. Before President Lemus caused a full-scale revolution with the massacre of student protesters expected to happen, moderate military officers staged a coup and overthrew the president. While officials promised to implement the reforms promised by liberal generals in the late 1940s and to hold elections in 1962, Eisenhower “found the promises insufficient” and “refused… mid-paper… ( __) While unemployment and inflation reinforced poverty throughout the country, especially in the rural suburbs, a new political movement began to develop in the cities, which threatened the old oligarch-military complex. When the radio began to announce that the opposition candidate, the PDC, Duarte was gathering votes, the radio was cut off and when the broadcast was ahead, the military government's choice, Molina. The blatant fraud encouraged young liberal officers and jealous senior officers to stage a coup, attempting to put Duarte in power. After receiving help from the forces of the Central American Defense Council (CONDECA), formed in 1963 under the influence of the United States to protect Central America against "possible communist aggression", and from US military advisors, the military command senior repressed the coup attempt decision. (___) The United States