Word: cuscatlan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countryside the fear seems palpable. In Piedra Labrada, a village in Cuscatlan, guardsmen opposed a meeting to form an agricultural cooperative. The get-together took place anyway. The next morning, an 18-year-old boy who had attended was found dead. Only three people turned out for the next meeting. Human rights groups focus on atrocities by the armed forces, but the F.M.L.N. is also guilty of abuses. In April two men in the village of La Periquera were executed by the guerrillas for failing to pay a "war tax." In another town, the F.M.L.N. announced it would execute...
Radio station YSU said more than 150 people had been killed in the collapse of the 10-story Ruben Dario building. Another report, by Radio Cuscatlan, said 30 people, mostly children, died in the Santa Catalina building. Neither report could be confirmed immediately...
...Radio Cuscatlan reported some looting...
...much as $175 million in military funds for the Central American nation, disheartening news came of a daring guerrilla offensive. On two year-end raids, leftist insurgents not only captured and held El Salvador's fourth-largest military base for some eight hours but blew up the Cuscatlan suspension bridge, a span that had come to symbolize 20th century progress for Salvadorans...
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