Edwin describes his role in transporting weapons for the guerrilla to and from Honduras and his arrest.
- Chapter:
- Chapter 5: Guerrilla Experiences
- Interviewee:
- Edwin
- Places:
- Honduras
Transcription
I worked for two or three years in Honduras transporting arms for the movement here. Then I was captured in 1989, right before the offensive in El Salvador. My cover was that I was a merchant. I drove a truck and sold goods in all the municipalities. I would sell things in the Honduran towns on the border: sugar, cabbage, potatoes, flour, anything that gave me a reason to move around in those areas. I used to take two trips a month, one for business and the other only as part of my cover. In 1989, they told me “You have to take all these armaments across the border during the next two months.” That was in preparation for the offensive. I told them: “I’m not going to be able to keep my cover.” I was going across the border at night every eight days and that raised suspicion. But they said that was a risk we had to take. One day when I could no longer do it, I had to do what I had to. At about 3 p.m. one day, there were some trucks and some units that the gringos had formed in Honduras. They were called territorial forces, and they were supposedly the most well-trained people out of all battalions. They formed the battalion of the territorial forces, which were the ones who penetrated these border areas. They were wrongly called the border pockets, which were Salvadoran but I know the Honduran government also participated. That was how I was captured, one day at around 3 p.m.