Word: morazan
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...reasons for coming. Having passed inspection, the visitors drive up the rutted, overgrown road to Perquín, where they are shown the bomb-damaged house in which they will stay, stark evidence of the danger that envelops the 15,000 to 20,000 people who live in northern Morazan. But despite the hardships the war has imposed, the portrait that emerges from a visit behind rebel lines is of an area struggling desperately to return to normality...
Critics of the army concede that its human rights record has improved, largely because of U.S. pressure. But, says a church worker in Morazan, "they don't have to kill as many people as they used to. The occasional body turns up, and everyone gets the message: 'We're still here, still watching...
Ramos also said that the four CIA operatives who were killed last week in a plane crash in EI Salvador had been bombing Morazan province...
...Salvadoran army, the rugged northern department of Morazan has long been enemy territory. The leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front have held Perquin and other towns so firmly that the U.S.-trained government troops dared not come near. But last week 3,000 men of the Salvadoran Third Infantry Brigade entered a number of villages in Morazan. Somewhat to their surprise, they encountered only perfunctory resistance. The rebels quickly abandoned the towns, melting into the green hills near the Honduran frontier and leaving behind booby traps. Confident that the victory would hold, the brigade's commander...
Little more than three weeks after the installation of newly elected President José Napoleón Duarte, El Salvador is once again reverberating with the sounds of combat. But this time they are not the sounds of defeat. The Morazan operation, part of an 8,000-man nationwide counterinsurgency sweep that also covered the departments of San Miguel, Cabañas, Usulután and Chalatenango, was the first assault since a military shake-up sent two officers to posts overseas shortly before Duarte's inauguration. Another auspicious sign for Duarte came when a Salvadoran judge sentenced five...