Word: usulutan
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...last year. A decline in world prices for such exports as coffee, cotton and sugar is a factor in the slump, but the war has brought new investment to a halt and driven many businessmen to close their doors and flee the country. Today guerrilla groups in Usulutan department loiter openly along the nation's most important highway, occasionally burning buses and trucks, collecting "revolutionary taxes" from travelers and delivering political lectures while Salvadoran army soldiers watch from a prudent distance. In one such incident, about 40 guerrillas armed with M-16s and older carbines blocked the road...
...headway in their struggle to overthrow the civilian-military junta that first took power in October 1979. Indeed, the guerrillas' attempts to wreck the nation's economy by cutting town water supplies and blowing up bridges have cost them the support of many people. The town of Usulutan (pop. 41,000) is without water, and San Miguel (pop. 113,000) has neither electricity nor water...