MEXICO CITY -- Nobel Prize winning Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal Tuesday likened the U.S. 'interventionist' policy in El Salvador to American policy in Vietnam, Cuba's official news agency Prensa Latina reported.
Myrdal, 50, an economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1974, 'severely criticized the interventionist policy of the United States in El Salvador,' Prensa Latina said in a dispatch monitored in Mexico City.
Myrdal, in Cuba to attend the Second Congress of the Association of Third World Economists, 'said that in Europe and particularly in Sweden there exists a popular rejection of the new American administration,' Prensa Latina said.
Quoting the prominent economist, Prensa Latina said U.S. policy in El Salvador 'is very much like that (policy) applied against Vietnam some years ago.'
The Reagan administration has promised $35 million in military aid and sent 56 U.S. military advisors to El Salvador, a war-torn Central Amersican nation of 4.8 million.
