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Published: February 18th 2009
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At the bus station in San Miguel, we were told by bus drivers the next bus to Perquin is at 10am so we have a few hours to kill then a young lady grabbed my arm and told me it was a lie and that in 10 minutes a bus will pull up, and indeed it happened, so we hopped on the very crowded bus, pedro sitting next to the pretty young lady who befriended us. The bus ride was long took about 3 hours to get there and quite slow on the way uphill, Joey was frustrated! Arriving in town we looked for the hostel Perquin Real but no one we asked can point us to the right direction so we decided to go where they said is another hostel, we followed the directions but lo and behold it was actually the hostel we were looking for!! The folks here does not seem to know hostels by names and it is a very very small town. There is nothing to do much here, very quiet, we entertained ourselves by going to internet and then having siesta after lunch and then visited the Museo La Revolucion, very interesting insight during the
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MUSEO DE LA REVOLUCION civil war, but the all in Spanish, a nice old man explained to us all about the the war being a veteran himself, and he has injuries to prove it, he was sent to germany for surgery to fix his wounds then he went to Cuba where he met Fidel Castro!! Pedro is loving this, our leftist Brazilian friend digs things like this and one of the reasons we came to Perquin, me and Joey can skip this but not Pedro so we have to give in. The town is nice but too quiet!!
The next morning we got up early to go to El Mozote, we arranged to be taken by the nice old man from the Museo to show us around the town and explain what happened there, he has lots of good information, I cannot understand them all and as usual my mind wanders after 2 minutes, he was an interesting character our guide, he talks too much and always says "va" in between phrases or words, Pedro said too much that it´s a bit annoying.Va is an expression we hear a lot in this country, we kind of imitate them now, every chance we get
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MUSEO DE LA REVOLUCION we say "va". A young teenager on bicycle keeps following us trying to sell some trinkets, annoyed at him Pedro finally buys something and asked him to leave us alone. We went for a walk around town, we saw the church and the Park dedicated to the massacred children, I will let the Wiki info do the talking, its a bit depressing but a good way to learn about this place´s history.
we walked down the dirt road on the way to Rio Sapo, we got picked up by a truck full of FMLN campaigners, the Presidential elections here is next month, these young people are going to a rally or something and was kind enough to drop us off at the river entrance. Quite refreshing cold water and we were the only ones there then 20 minutes later hordes of people came along and the place got busy. on the way back we took a very congested bus back to the junction and took a truck back to Perquin, same way as we came earlier in the morning, our guide has no vehicle so we took public transport which was fun, on back of pick up trucks and
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MUSEO DE LA REVOLUCION a big hauling truck as well.
Back to town we had lunch and I got my fave sopa de mondongo, then we internet and chilled at the hostel. Later in the afternoon pedro and i went to visit the campamento Guerrillero, the set up ius the same like in Vietnam and Bosnia, a secret camp where they have tunnels and ammunitions and sleeping quarters etc.
WIKI INFO:
El Mozote is a village in the Morazán department in El Salvador. It was the site of the El Mozote massacre in December 1981 when nearly 1,000 civilians were killed by the US-trained Atlacatl Battalion, backed by the Salvadoran government.
In December 1981, high in the mountains of El Salvador, in the little town called El Mozote, the entire town was destroyed by the most elite battalion of the Salvadoran army. Nobody was left alive except for one woman who later recounted the massacre. This event was kept secret for many years, denied by the right wing government of El Salvador and by the U.S. government as well. As the years passed, the evidence accumulated and eventually mass graves were uncovered.
The only survivor was Rufina Amaya, a
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MUSEO DE LA REVOLUCION woman who recounted her experience through the rest of her life until her death in March 2007. She was able to escape the Salvadoran troops shooting all those around her, even her own family, including sons and daughters.
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