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Title: Medical Care In Perquín, Morazán
Date: 1983-10-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Women and children line up for medical care at a military clinic in Perquín, Morazán department, El Salvador, October 23, 1983. Perquín was one of several towns in the Morazán department that were controlled by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, during the twelve-year armed conflict.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Daily life; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0292_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96420
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Title: Salvadoran Election Poster In Mejicanos Neighborhood
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Pedestrians walk past a presidential election poster for the right-wing political party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA, on their way home from work in the Mejicanos neighborhood of San Salvador, El Salvador, May 1, 1984. ARENA was founded in 1981 from a convergence of the landowning oligarchy and the extreme anti-communist right. The party received formative support from Guatemala's fascist ultra-right political party Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, National Liberation Movement, MLN, and from several influential members of the Republican party of the United States. Roberto D'Aubuisson, founding member of ARENA and the presidential candidate for the party in the 1984 elections, was known to have close ties to the death squads and had a reputation for extreme violence.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Daily life; Government; Politics; Elections; Political campaigns; Oligarchy; Cold War; United States foreign policy; Death squads; Human rights violations; Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA); Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN); Roberto D'Aubuisson
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0293_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96421
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Title: Vargas Llosa Interviews Salvadoran President Álvaro Magaña
Date: 1984-05-10
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, center, interviews President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja, right, at the Presidential Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 10, 1984. Vargas Llosa was reporting on the 1984 Salvadoran presidential elections for Time magazine. Time magazine correspondent David DeVoss, left, listens during the interview.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; United States foreign policy; Foreign aid; Military aid; Government; Politics; Elections; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Cold war; Mario Vargas Llosa; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: David DeVoss; Mario Vargas Llosa; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0294_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96422
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Title: 57 Army Soliders Killed In Tejutepeque, El Salvador
Date: 1984-03-26
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran army soldier stands over a dead guerrilla from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberacion, FPL, killed in a battle in Tejutepeque, El Salvador, March 26, 1984. The Salvadoran army lost 57 soldiers in the battle while FPL guerrillas lost 16 when they attacked two army positions 20 miles from San Salvador, the nation's capital. The twelve-year armed conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0299_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96427
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Title: Vargas Llosa Interviews Salvadoran President Álvaro Magaña
Date: 1984-05-10
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa interviews President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja at the Presidential Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 10, 1984. Vargas Llosa was reporting on the 1984 Salvadoran presidential elections for Time magazine. José Napoleón Duarte of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano, Christian Democratic Party, PDC, was elected president on May 12, 1984. This victory can be largely attributed to the more than $3 million in aid, both overt and covert, provided by the United States to finance the elections in an effort to produce a moderate reformist government compliant with Washington's interests.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; United States foreign policy; Foreign aid; Military aid; Government; Politics; Elections; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Cold war; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Mario Vargas Llosa
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Mario Vargas Llosa
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0296_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96424
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Title: Visnews Cameraman Michele Taverna In San Salvador
Date: 1984-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Italian cameraman Michele Taverna, left, films a presidential campaign rally in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 1, 1984. José Napoleón Duarte of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano, Christian Democratic Party, PDC, was elected president on May 12, 1984. This victory can be largely attributed to the more than $3 million in aid, both overt and covert, provided by the United States to finance the elections in an effort to produce a moderate reformist government compliant with Washington's interests.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; United States foreign policy; Foreign aid; Military aid; Government; Politics; Elections; Political campaigns; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Cold war; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Michele Taverna
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0297_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96425
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Title: Vargas Llosa Goes On Campaign With Roberto D'Aubuisson
Date: 1984-05-09
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, right, listens to Salvadoran presidential candidate Roberto D'Aubuisson, left, from the right-wing party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA, on the campaign trail in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 9, 1984. Vargas Llosa was reporting and writing about the Salvadoran presidential elections for Time magazine. José Napoleón Duarte of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano, Christian Democratic Party, PDC, was elected president on May 12, 1984. This victory can be largely attributed to the more than $3 million in aid, both overt and covert, provided by the United States to finance the elections in an effort to produce a moderate reformist government compliant with Washington's interests.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; United States foreign policy; Foreign aid; Military aid; Government; Politics; Elections; Political campaigns; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Cold war; Human rights violations; Death squads; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Mario Vargas Llosa; Roberto D'Aubuisson
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Mario Vargas Llosa; Roberto D'Aubuisson
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0298_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96426
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Title: Soldier Of Fortune Magazine Owner Visits Morazán During Civil War
Date: 1984-02-21
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran army officer, right, speaks with Robert K. Brown, third left, a former U.S. soldier, editor and publisher of the anti-communist Soldier of Fortune mercenary magazine in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, February 21, 1984. Brown and his magazine arrived in El Salvador to donate weapons training and $750,000 of medical and surgical equipment to Salvadoran army doctors.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Arms trade; Military; Military training; Military aid; Counterinsurgency; Cold War; Robert K. Brown
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Robert K. Brown
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0291_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96419
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Title: ERP Prisoner Held By Atlacatl Battalion In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-12-16
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, left, is guarded by a soldier from the Salvadoran army in Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel department, El Salvador, December 16, 1983. The ERP prisoner was captured during a military operation by the Atlacatl Battalion in the coffee producing hills of the San Miguel department and claimed he was forced into joining the leftist guerrilla group.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Military; Counterinsurgency; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Communism; Human rights violations; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0283_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96411
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Title: Christian Fundamentalists In San Salvador
Date: 1984-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Civilians listen while a Christian evangelical speaks about God and the Bible in Parque La Libertad, San Salvador, El Salvador, March 1, 1984. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritarian regimes, backed by the United States, and the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Daily life; Religion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0295_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96423
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Title: "Soldier Of Fortune" Magazine Owner Visits Morazán Department During Civil War
Date: 1984-02-21
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local women wait in line to see medical personnel from El Salvador and the United States during a free medical clinic hosted by Soldier of Fortune magazine in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, February 21, 1984. Lieutenant Colonel Robert K. Brown, a Green Beret who served with Special Forces in Vietnam, started the mercenary publication in 1975. Brown and his magazine donated weapons training and $750,000 in medical and surgical equipment to Salvadoran army doctors.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Psychological warfare; Daily life; Cold War; Robert K. Brown
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0109_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96237
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Title: FPL Forces Hold Rally In La Palma, Chalatenango Department
Date: 1983-02-06
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: An officer from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, listens to a question from a western journalist during a press conference in La Palma, El Salvador, February 6, 1983. FPL, as a member of the coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, acquired arms and strategic support from socialist parties in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Soviet Union to fund their campaigns. The FMLN and their political counterpart the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR, were recognized as the established insurgency in El Salvador and played an integral role in the 1992 peace accords.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Arms trade; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Cold War; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Frente Democrático Revolucionario (FDR)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0110_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96238
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Title: ABC Television Crew Films ERP Guerrillas In El Salvador
Date: 1983-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A television crew from ABC films a young fighter from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, as guerrillas stop commercial traffic along the Pan American Highway in Usulatán department, El Salvador, May 1, 1983. Guerrilla tactics for disrupting the transportation of commercial goods were employed in protest of economic inequality and to show defiance to the authoritarian state regime.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Economy; Development; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Timothy Ross
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0102_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96230
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Title: Bodies Of Civil Defensemen Killed By FMLN Arrive In Guadalupe, El Salvador
Date: 1983-05-09
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local residents mourn as a truck carrying caskets of dead relatives arrives in Guadalupe, San Vicente department, El Salvador, May 9, 1983. The dead were members of a local civil defense force killed by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. Civil defense units in El Salvador were under military command and operated particularly in rural areas where guerrilla support was high.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0103_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96231
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Title: Death Of Salvadoran Army Soldiers In Morazán
Date: 1983-10-24
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran woman stands outside a military hospital hoping to see her husband, Juan Pablo Rivas, who was reportedly killed along with 13 other army soldiers in a helicopter explosion over the Morazán department, El Salvador, October 24, 1983. Among those killed were Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa and other field commanders of high rank. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Military aid; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0113_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96241
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Title: Military Academy Cadets In Santa Tecla
Date: 1984-08-11
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Military cadets at the Escuela Militar Capitán General Gerardo Barrios stand at attention during a military ceremony in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, August 11, 1984. Lack of opportunity for social and economic ascension led many young Salvadorans towards military inscription. Graduates from this competitive academy would go on to occupy key positions in the state-military apparatus.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military ceremonies
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0114_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96242
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Title: U.S. Military Advisor Trains Salvadoran Soldiers
Date: 1983-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A United States Army advisor, left, leads Salvadoran army soldiers during an open air class in San Juan Opico, El Salvador, March 1, 1983. With the escalation of U.S. military aid in 1981, 55 military advisors, or the Mobile Training Team, MTT, arrived in El Salvador and were stationed at bases around the country. Referred to as "trainers" to discourage comparisons with U.S. advisors during the Vietnam War, the trainers in El Salvador worked to strengthen the military capacity of the Salvadoran Armed Forces as well as enforce the preferred military strategy of the war's largest funder, the United States government.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military training; Military aid; United States foreign policy; Cold War
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0104_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96232
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Title: Atlacatl Battalion In Pursuit Of FMLN Guerrillas In San Miguel
Date: 1983-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran soldiers of the Atlacatl Battalion stop during a military operation in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Rapid reaction battalions were trained in counterinsurgency tactics to combat guerrilla warfare and were designed and funded by the United States military. The Atlacatl Battalion was implicated in some of the most infamous human rights violations of the twelve-year armed conflict.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; United States foreign policy; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0105_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96233
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Title: Fourth Anniversary Of Archbishop Óscar Romero's Assassination In San Salvador
Date: 1984-03-24
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: An elderly woman is helped into a Roman Catholic church by family members on the fourth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Óscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D'Aubuisson.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Activism; Human rights violations; Death squads; Óscar Romero; Roberto D'Aubuisson
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0106_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96234
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Title: Fourth Anniversary Of The Killing Of Archbishop Óscar Romero
Date: 1984-03-24
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A woman lights a votive candle on the fourth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Óscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D'Aubuisson. The martyred Romero was officially canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2018.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Activism; Human rights violations; Death squads; Óscar Romero; Roberto D'Aubuisson
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0107_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96235
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