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Title: D’Aubuisson Meets Archbishop Rivera y Damas
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Roberto D'Aubuisson (1944-1992), center left, shakes hands with Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas (1923-1994), right, at an event in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 1983. Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (1925-2001), center, looks on. D’Aubuisson helped establish the paramilitary network of death squads around the country in the late 1970s was named responsible as giving the orders for the assassination of Rivera y Damas’ predecessor, Archbishop Óscar Romero, on March 24, 1980.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Government; Oligarchy; Human rights violations; Death squads; Roberto D'Aubuisson; Arturo Rivera y Damas; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja; Óscar Romero
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Roberto D'Aubuisson; Arturo Rivera y Damas; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0254_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96721
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Title: D’Aubuisson Meets Monsignor José Oscar Barahona Castillo
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Roberto D'Aubuisson (1944-1992), left, shakes hands with Roman Catholic Bishop José Oscar Barahona Castillo (1938-2016), right, at an event in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 1983. Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (1925-2001), center, looks on. D’Aubuisson founded the extreme right-wing political party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA, in 1980. He was known to have close ties to the death squads and had a reputation for extreme violence.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Government; Oligarchy; Human rights violations; Death squads; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja; Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA)
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Roberto D'Aubuisson; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja; José Oscar Barahona Castillo
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0255_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96722
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Title: Farmer Receives Land Grant From Salvadoran President and Minister of Defense
Date: 1982-07-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (1925 - 2001), second left, stands next to Minister of Defense General José Guillermo García, center, as he hands a Salvadoran farmer, right, the title to a plot of land as part of an agrarian reform and land transfer program at a ceremony in San Salvador, El Salvador, July 1, 1982. Agrarian reform initiated in 1980 in El Salvador was designed by United States advisors, financed by the United States government, and implemented by the Salvadoran military. The reform followed the model previously implemented in the Vietnam War of dividing large pieces of land into cooperatives in an effort to pacify a population considered to be sympathetic to the guerrilla insurgency. However, the model did not attempt to dismantle the landowner oligarchy nor the redistribution of coffee plantations, two critical causes of the armed conflict.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Land reform; Agriculture; Labor; Economy; Cold War; United States foreign policy; José Guillermo García
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja; José Guillermo García
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0028_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96495
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Title: Portrait Of Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Close-up of Salvadoran President Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (1925-2001) in his home in San Salvador, El Salvador, April 1, 1983. Magaña was appointed provisional president in March of 1982 by the Legislative Assembly and was seen by many as a compromise choice between the interests of the Salvadoran economic and military elite and those of the United States.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Cold war; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Government; Politics; Oligarchy
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0261_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96728
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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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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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