 The town was one of the first settlements to be repopulated by refugees who had been driven away by government bombing during the early 1980s.In 1986, in defiance of the military, the civilian population returned to reconstruct the village.This was part of a campaign of a number of towns throughout northern El Salvador, with the assistance of humanitarian groups in North America and Europe, to resist the militarization of the area and prevent continued bombing during the war.