Word: moraz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy came during a major army sweep through the mountainous department of Morazán, a rebel-infested area 115 miles southeast of San Salvador. The 400-man helicopter assault, named Operation Torola 4 and directed by Monterrosa, inaugurated the army's new strategy of "air-mobile warfare" less than a week after President Duarte's historic peace meeting with rebel leaders in La Palma. Though few rebels were found, the maneuvers yielded documents and other information about how the insurgents are organized. Monterrosa was well aware of the risks in such an operation: two days before...
...Palma meeting seemed to uncover a craving in almost every sector of Salvadoran society for an end to the bloodshed. Evelio Sorto, a teacher displaced by the war from his home in the northern department of Morazán, was among the crowd that trekked to La Palma. "If this opportunity is lost, we may never have another," he observed. Said Oscar Martínez, a local peasant: "This is a beautiful country, but the war is destroying it. I hope the leaders can forget their differences and think about what they are doing to El Salvador...
...separate from the people, it means we lose the war." Even so, one important guerrilla commander, Joaquín Villalobos, head of a faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, was unable to attend. The reason: difficulties in traveling from his remote stronghold in the department of Moraz...
...away from negotiations as their power increases. They tend toward negotiations as their power weakens." According to that assessment, Duarte must still wage war in order to wage peace. Indeed, three days after the La Palma meeting, the Salvadoran army launched a new offensive against the guerrillas in northern Morazán. But in going those dangerous miles to La Palma, El Salvador's new President had given peace a measurably better chance. -By George Russell...
...successful Morazán operation pleased no one as much as the U.S. military advisers, who have long been urging the Salvadoran army to shed its "9t05" habits and aggressively pursue the guerrillas in their strongholds. The army also helped relocate hundreds of peasants who have been alienated by a guerrilla recruitment drive. In addition, the Salvadoran army says that since January some 400 demoralized rebels have turned themselves in to the army. Monterrosa's brigade now plans to establish a permanent presence, including a forward command post, in the reoccupied areas...