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Title: Local Photographer In Rural Huehuetenango
Date: 1982-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A local photographer prepares to take a picture in a rural town in Huehuetenango department, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. In 1954, U.S. economic interests and the United Fruit Company's influence in Guatemala were threatened by nationalist reforms proposed by President Jacobo Árbenz. Invoking Cold War fears of the spread of communism in the Western Hemisphere, the CIA orchestrated a coup d'état to install a succession of military regimes. Before and during the 36-year civil war that began in 1960, the United States government financed and trained Guatemalan military and security forces responsible for state-sanctioned violence against political opponents, guerrilla insurgents, and civilians.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Daily life; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0094_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96943
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Title: Salvadoran Army Receive Parachute Training By U.S. Military Advisors
Date: 1982-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers listen to a United States Army instructor during a parachute training exercise overseen by U.S. Army Rangers and Special Forces at the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 1, 1982. 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. The advisors were prohibited from engaging in combat missions with Salvadoran troops and from carrying weapons other than a sidearm. However, regulations on the capacities and number of advisors stationed were largely ignored or circumvented by the Reagan administration.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Military training; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: United States
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0189_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96317
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Receive Parachute Training By U.S. Military Advisors
Date: 1982-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers listen to a United States Army instructor during a parachute training exercise overseen by U.S. Army Rangers and Special Forces at the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 1, 1982. 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 aid; Military training; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: United States
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0190_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96318
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Receive Parachute Training By U.S. Military Advisors
Date: 1982-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army recruits perform exercises during a parachute training class overseen by United States Army Rangers and Special Forces at the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 1, 1982. The base was favored by the U.S. military operating in the region as a headquarters for covert activities. Among the operations carried out were C.I.A.-sponsored supply flights to the Nicaraguan contras.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Military training; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: United States
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0188_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96316
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Ex-General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova Loses Appeal And Is Deported Back to El Salvador
Date: 2000-10-19
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova walks to the Federal Courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, October 19, 2000. Vides Casanova was head of the Salvadoran National Guard between 1979 and 1983. 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; Deportation; Trials; Impunity; Human rights violations; Justice; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0252_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96719
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Security Check In Huehuetenango
Date: 1982-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A security officer in plainclothes and armed with a Galil assault rifle, right, searches a civilian in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. United States involvement in Guatemala began in 1954, when fears of communist influence on President Jacobo Árbenz led to a CIA-engineered coup d'état to install a military regime. In the 36-year civil war that followed, the United States, along with Israel and Argentina, consistently provided military aid and support for counterinsurgency campaigns despite Guatemala's abysmal human rights record.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Military aid; Cold War; United States foreign policy; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0072_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96921
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Frederic L. Chapin Meets With Chamber Of Commerce In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-08-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: United States Ambassador to Guatemala Frederic L. Chapin (1929-1989) speaks at a meeting with U.S.-Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce representatives in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 1, 1983. Chapin served as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala from 1981 to 1984 during a period of high political instability and increasing violence and oppression by the military.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Government; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Frederic L. Chapin
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Frederic L. Chapin
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0108_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96957
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Frederic L. Chapin Meets With Chamber Of Commerce In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-08-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: United States Ambassador to Guatemala Frederic L. Chapin (1929-1989) speaks at a meeting with U.S.-Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce representatives in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 1, 1983. Chapin served as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala from 1981 to 1984 during a period of high political instability and increasing violence and oppression by the military.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Government; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Frederic L. Chapin
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Frederic L. Chapin
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0109_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96958
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Frederic L. Chapin Meets With Chamber Of Commerce In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-08-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: United States Ambassador to Guatemala Frederic L. Chapin (1929-1989) speaks at a meeting with U.S.-Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce representatives in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 1, 1983. Chapin served as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala from 1981 to 1984 during a period of high political instability and increasing violence and oppression by the military.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Government; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Frederic L. Chapin
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Frederic L. Chapin
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0110_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96959
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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