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Residents and armed guerrilleros stand and talk at the local market in the rebel controlled town of Corinto. A 62-year-old guerrilla man talks to a young boy and a woman. Graffiti on a damaged wall reads "Because we are one people we are invincible." A guerrillero standing on the left of the image is holding an M-16 rifle of U.S. origin. Most of the men are wearing hats. The Department of Morazán, where Corinto is located, was one of the poorest and most remote areas in El Salvador and it was the stronghold of the People's Revolutuonary Army (ERP), one of the five guerrilla factions of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMNL). By the end of February of 1983 the entire northern Morazán was in the hands of the FMLN. Residentes y guerrilleros armados estan paran y hablan en el mercado local en el mercado de Corinto, una ciudad controlada por la guerrilla. Un guerrillero de 62 años habla con un niño y una mujer. Grafiti pintado sobre una pared dañada lee "Porque somos un un pueble somos invencibles". Un guerrillero parado sobre la izquierda de la imagen sostiene un fusil se M-16 de origen estadounidense. La mayoría de los hombres llevan sombrero. El departamento de Morazán, donde encuentra Corinto, fue una de las áreas más pobres y remotas de El Salvador y fue el bastión del Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP), una de las cinco facciones guerrilleras del Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional (FMNL). A fines de febrero de 1983, todo el norte de Morazán estaba en manos del FMLN.
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