Santa Tecla

[san-tuh tek-luh, sahn-tah te-klah]

noun

1. a city in SW El Salvador, just SW of San Salvador.

Example Sentences

In Santa Tecla, a city just outside capital San Salvador, 45-year-old mechanic Manuel said he had paid extortion money for 12 years.

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Santa Tecla Mayor Henry Flores said the crews had destroyed nearly 80 tombstones in the municipal cemetery and erased gang-related graffiti.

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Santa Tecla sits beside the capital San Salvador and has long been a stronghold of the Mara Salvatrucha gang.

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“I don’t understand that about the constitution, but the man is doing a good job, he‘s finishing with the gangs, and yes I support him,” said Estela Sánchez, a produce vendor in the San Salvador suburb of Santa Tecla.

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In a leafy park in front of Santa Tecla’s municipal market and short distance from San Jose El Pino, Adela Maravilla Ceballos walked with her groceries on a recent morning.

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