Passing Truck by Roque Dalton I read on the side of a passing truck filled to bursting with soldiers: "Armed Forces of El Salvador." If it's true it's force why the need to be armed? Or is it that its only strength is that of being armed? Or is it that the term "armed" is the adjectivization of the verb to arm or to assemble currently in use when we refer to Westinghouse refrigerators RCA televisions and so many other appliances that North Americans assemble in their local cheap labor installations?