Word: guerrillasâ
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...openly cynical townspeople defiantly drove past the army checkpoints in pickup trucks straining with market goods and in crowded passenger buses sagging on their axles. "The soldiers don't dare come up the road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?the guerrillas???were collecting "war taxes" from passing vehicles. Along the roadside lay the now commonplace evidence of the country's brutal strife: hacked and mutilated carcasses of the dead, some men, some teenagers. Newsmen could not determine why they were killed, or by whom. But one stripped corpse of a youth...
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