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Title: 1984 La Palma Peace Talks
Date: 1984-10-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran government officials Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, left in white, Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, middle, and President José Napoleón Duarte, middle speaking in microphone, address the press during peace talks with the insurgency coalition FDR-FMLN in La Palma, El Salvador, October 15, 1984. A military stalemate led to direct public peace negotiations for the first time in the civil conflict between the Salvadoran government and members of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, and their political counterpart the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR. The two sides would engage in peace talks intermittently throughout the country’s twelve-year civil war before the signing of the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Government; Politics; Peace talks; Insurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; Frente Democrático Revolucionario (FDR)
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; José Napoleón Duarte
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0222_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96689
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Title: 1984 La Palma Peace Talks
Date: 1984-10-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran government officials Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, left in white, Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, middle, and President José Napoleón Duarte, middle speaking in microphone, address the press during peace talks with the insurgency coalition FDR-FMLN in La Palma, El Salvador, October 15, 1984. A military stalemate led to direct public peace negotiations for the first time in the civil conflict between the Salvadoran government and members of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, and their political counterpart the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR. The two sides would engage in peace talks intermittently throughout the country’s twelve-year civil war before the signing of the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Government; Politics; Peace talks; Insurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; Frente Democrático Revolucionario (FDR)
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; José Napoleón Duarte
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0223_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96690
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Title: Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
Date: 1984-10-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, left, and the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, right, at the funeral procession with Monterrosa’s family and military officers following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. 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. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army’s best field officer.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0221_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96688
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Title: General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova Attends A Military Ceremony In San Salvador
Date: 1983-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova salutes during a military ceremony in San Salvador, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Vides Casanova was head of the Salvadoran National Guard between 1979 and 1983 and served as Minister of Defense from 1983 to 1989. After a 15-year legal battle, he was found guilty in the United States by his command responsibility over Salvadoran security forces for acts of torture and extrajudicial killings, including the brutal slaying of four U.S. nuns in 1980. On April 8, 2015, U.S. immigration officials deported Vides Casanova to El Salvador from the United States, where he had resided as a legal permanent resident since 1989.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; United States foreign policy; Military; Military ceremonies; Deportation; Trials; Impunity; Military aid; Justice; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0207_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96674
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Title: General Vides Casanova Toasts Outgoing U.S. Col. Waghelstein In San Salvador
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, left, toasts U.S. Army Colonel John D. Waghelstein, right, as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador Kenneth W. Bleakley, center, oversees a ceremony honoring Col. Waghelstein prior to his departure from the country, San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 1983. As Chief of the U.S. Military Group in El Salvador, Waghelstein held command over the U.S. advisors stationed in the country and was one of the army's leading experts on counterinsurgency warfare.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Waghelstein; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; Kenneth W. Bleakley
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0121_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96588
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Title: Generals Flores Lima And Vides Casanova In San Salvador
Date: 1983-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Deputy Minister of Defense Rafael Flores Lima, left, and Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, right, salute during a military ceremony in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. The twelve-year Salvadoran civil war was rooted in class conflict. The country's high economic disparity had existed since Spanish colonial rule and continued after peace negotiations concluded in 1992. The landowning oligarchy and the military formed an early alliance in the country’s history that all but guaranteed an impermeable apparatus of consolidated control and impunity.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Military ceremonies; Rafael Flores Lima; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Rafael Flores Lima; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0147_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96614
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Title: U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz Arrives In El Salvador
Date: 1984-01-31
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: United States Secretary of State George Shultz, center, makes an appearance for the media at the Salvadoran Foreign Ministry in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 31, 1984. Secretary Shultz is surrounded by, left to right, Salvadoran Foreign Minister Fidel Chavez Mena, U.S. Ambassador at Large Richard Stone, Salvadoran General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja, U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering and other Salvadoran and U.S. officials. Considered the "last major battle of the Cold War", the Central American conflicts drew significant attention from Washington, with officials frequently visiting the region to assess strategies as well as encourage the doctrines of military victory and democracy building.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Human rights violations; George Shultz; Fidel Chavez Mena; Richard Stone; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; Thomas R. Pickering; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: George Shultz; Fidel Chavez Mena; Richard Stone; Thomas R. Pickering; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0285_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96413
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