United States Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton, center, and U.S. military advisor Colonel John D. Waghelstein, right, stand with others at the Ilopango Airport in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 26, 1983. The group was waiting for the body of the assassinated U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Albert Schaufelberger III to be loaded onto a military cargo for a flight to the United States. Schaufelberger was the senior U.S. Naval representative and security chief for the 55 U.S. Military Advisors in El Salvador from August 1982 until he was killed in San Salvador on May 25, 1983. He was the first U.S. serviceman killed in the twelve-year armed conflict.
United States military officers including Colonel John D. Waghelstein, fourth in middle row, and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton, third in right row, walk a casket with the body of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Albert Schaufelberger III to be loaded onto a military plane to the United States, Ilopango Airport, San Salvador, El Salvador, May 26, 1983. Schaufelberger was the senior U.S. Naval representative and security chief for the 55 U.S. Military Advisors in the country from August 1982 until he was killed in San Salvador on May 25, 1983. He was the first U.S. serviceman killed in the twelve-year armed conflict.
United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick arrives in El Salvador during a ten-day tour of Central America and is escorted by Salvadoran Foreign Minister Fidel Chavez Mena, left, and United States Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton, right, for a series of meetings in San Salvador, El Salvador, February 9, 1983. After returning to Washington, she recommended an immediate increase in military aid for El Salvador and rejected any dialogue between the Salvadoran government and the guerrillas. Kirkpatrick, as one of the extreme "hardliners" in foreign policy in the Reagan administration, publicly supported right-wing authoritarian regimes who shared a firm anticommunist stance and advocated for increasing U.S. military support for these regimes in spite of mounting human rights violations against their civilian populations.
United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926-2006) arrives in El Salvador during a ten-day tour of Central America and is escorted by U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton, right, for a series of meetings in San Salvador, El Salvador, February 9, 1983. After returning to Washington, she recommended an immediate increase in military aid for El Salvador and rejected any dialogue between the Salvadoran government and the guerrillas. Kirkpatrick, as one of the extreme “hardliners” in foreign policy in the Reagan administration, publicly supported right-wing authoritarian regimes who shared a firm anticommunist stance and advocated for increasing U.S. military support for these regimes in spite of mounting human rights violations against their civilian populations.
United States Ambassador Deane Hinton, center, hands an American flag to Roberto D'Aubuisson, President of the Constituent Assembly, in San Salvador, El Salvador, April 1, 1983. In addition to founding the conservative political party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA, D'Aubuisson was a former official of the Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Salvadoreña, National Security Agency of El Salvador, ANSESAL, the intelligence sector of the death squads. He was named responsible as giving the orders for the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero on March 24, 1980.
Close-up of United States Ambassador to El Salvador Deane R. Hinton (1923-2017) as he speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 1, 1983. Hinton served as ambassador to El Salvador from 1981-83 before moving to diplomatic posts in Pakistan, Costa Rica, and Panama.
United States Ambassador to El Salvador Deane R. Hinton (1923-2017) walks beside a swimming pool at his residence in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 1, 1983. Hinton served as ambassador to El Salvador from 1981-83 before moving to diplomatic posts in Pakistan, Costa Rica, and Panama.