Word: tenancingo
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Life is slowly returning to the town of Tenancingo. The grade school has reopened its doors, as have the youth club and the carpentry workshop. Once again women call to one another from window ledges as they sit weaving palm straw into strips for hats and bags. Two weeks ago, bus service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their...
...both sides went through the motions of peacemaking in Bogotá, they still hoped to gain a decisive edge on the battlefield. Crawling through cornfields, tobacco patches and shoulder-high brush, squads of guerrillas staged a surprise early-morning raid against several army outposts near the hilltop town of Tenancingo, 17 miles northeast of San Salvador. After two hours of fighting, frightened townspeople, many of whom were hiding under their beds, heard approaching army helicopters. They were soon followed by spotter planes and three U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets...
When the smoke cleared, as many as 40 residents of Tenancingo and 20 government troops had been killed. The guerrillas escaped with at least 20 casualties. Salvadoran military officials claimed that government pilots had not intended to strike the town center and had been misdirected by insurgents using captured radios. The commander who led the counterattack apologized to the people of Tenancingo, explaining that the brutal bombing raid had been an "exception." Nevertheless, the incident was bound to set back government efforts to pacify and repopulate wartorn areas of the country. It was also sure to draw the wrath...
...BELDIN Tenancingo, Mexico...