UPITN cameraman Godofredo Guedes, right, and sound man Luis Mejia, standing second left, film the casket of a Salvadoran civilian killed in crossfire between the Salvadoran Armed Forces and guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in central El Salvador, July 1, 1983. The twelve-year armed conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
UPITN cameraman Godofredo Guedes, left, UPITN soundman Alfredo Mejia, center right, UPI photographer Ivan Montecinos, second right, and Visnews cameraman Erico Zas Cano, right, wait for a Salvadoran army convoy to pass along the Pan American Highway in Usulután department, July 5, 1983. Every major paper and wire service had a bureau in El Salvador while international concern maintained the Central American conflicts as hemispheric battles over communist expansion.