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Extract from the Perqun Travel Guides:
After passing through Arambala, the road begins its final climb to
PERQUN
, a small and - given its history - surprisingly friendly mountain town, set in the middle of glorious walking countryside. During the war the town was the FMLN headquarters, from where they broadcast to the nation on the (literally) underground station Radio Venceremos ("We Will Triumph"). Attempts by the army to dislodge the guerrillas mostly failed, leaving the town badly damaged and deserted. Today, the "town that refused to die" has repaired most of its buildings, although the scars of war are evident everywhere, and nearly everyone has a...
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