No, I am not so naive to believe that they did not have any support within the countryside but that terror played a large part within their strategy, especially within areas that did not have their support, but even then it might act as a big incentive to the populace not to inform if they found that old "Juan" in the next village along had his family killed because he was thought to be an informer.Tc2642 implies they terrorized everyone into compliance.
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