Word: chiquimula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with two T-6 trainers, one F47 fighter and one DC-3 transport; Tacho's air force included identical planes. A captured rebel said that he was billeted for pre-invasion training at the Nicaraguan Guard's Fort Coyotepe (another insurgent reported he had been trained at Chiquimula, in Guatemala). But Tacho expertly concealed the hard evidence needed to prove Nicaragua's complicity to the satisfaction of the peace-keeping Organization of American States' field investigators, who announced only that the invaders' arms came over Costa Rica's "northern border." That finding, however...
...days they bombed and strafed Chiquimula, a provincial capital (pop. 9,000) at the south end of the 130-mile front paralleling the Honduran border...
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