Word: chalatenango
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...readers of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal had a chance to read in midsummer about the dubious value of the White Paper, most of America was left to assume that our military advisers were standing up to the Kremlin in the mountain jungles of Morazan and Chalatenango...
...harass army supply and communications links. Bands of insurgents occupy villages and occasionally even a sizable town for a few days at a time. When superior government forces arrive, the guerrillas fade away. When the army units move on, the guerrillas are apt to return shortly thereafter. In Chalatenango department, such hit-and-run tactics have forced army troops to stay close to their barracks. In Morazan department, the insurgents control most of the countryside. Last week TIME Correspondent James Willwerth traveled to Morazan, 100 miles from San Salvador, to assess the latest fighting. His report...
Reports of massacres in the Morazon district alone are not new. Since security forces launched "clean-up operations" --offensives against leftist guerrillas in Morazon and Chalatenango provinces--last October, hundreds of innocent peasants have been murdered. A nun working in Morazon was quoted in the January 19, 1981 issue of Newsweek that 200 persons were killed every week...
...Romero (assassinated last year for his criticisms of the government)--states that the most recent "cleanup" offensive occured last month. According to their reports, 798 persons were killed in El Salvador between March 7 and March 13, 681 of whom were peasants attacked by government planes and helicopters in Chalatenango and Morazon. Since the offensive began, the government has periodically closed off the area to church groups and the press...
...continued to simmer. Salvadoran troops moved in and cleared guerrillas off the Conchagua volcano, near La Union. The 700 gunmen reportedly stationed there had retreated long before the assault was finished. Government forces also regained control of the tiny town of San Antonio de Los Ranches in Chalatenango, nearly completing the recapture of villages seized by the guerrillas in their failed January offensive...