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Title: Wounded Soldiers In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A wounded officer from the Atlacatl Battalion, second right, is evacuated by soldiers during a military operation in pursuit of guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. Rapid reaction battalions were trained in counterinsurgency tactics to combat guerrilla warfare and were designed and funded by the United States military. 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; Military aid; Human rights violations; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0258_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96386
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded Soldier In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A wounded soldier from the Atlacatl Battalion is evacuated during a military operation in pursuit of guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. 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; Military aid; Human rights violations; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0268_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96396
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded Soldier In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A wounded soldier from the Atlacatl Battalion is evacuated during a military operation in pursuit of guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. The Atlacatl Battalion was trained at Ft. Bragg in the United States by U.S. Special Forces as the first Salvadoran rapid response counterinsurgency battalion and 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; Insurgency; Atlacatl Battalion; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0047_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96175
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded Soldier In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A wounded soldier from the Atlacatl Battalion is evacuated during a military operation in pursuit of guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 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; Insurgency; Atlacatl Battalion; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0048_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96176
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded Soldier In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A wounded soldier from the Atlacatl Battalion is evacuated during a military operation in pursuit of guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 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; Military training; United States foreign policy; Cold War
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0276_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded Soldier In Santa Cruz Del Quiché Following Battle With EGP Guerrillas
Date: 1982-01-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A wounded Guatemalan army soldier waits for transport after being brought for medical aid to the military hospital in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 20, 1982. Over 100 guerrillas from the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, attacked the military's highland base in San Juan Cotzal the day before, leaving 12 soldiers dead in the official count. According to local civilians and unofficial reports, 34 army soldiers were killed. In retaliation, the Guatemalan army killed 67 civilians in San Juan Cotzal in the following week.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0021_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96870
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded Salvadoran Civilian
Date: 1983-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Portrait of an injured man as he stands in a doorway, central El Salvador, May 1, 1983. He was shot in the shoulder while caught in crossfire during a firefight between armed guerrillas and the Salvadoran military.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Civilian casualties; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0097_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96564
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded ERP Guerrilla Captured By Atlacatl Battalion In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A critically wounded guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, lies on the ground after being captured by soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion during a military operation in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. 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; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Insurgency; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0253_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96381
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded ERP Guerrilla Captured By Atlacatl Battalion In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A critically wounded guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, lies on the ground after being captured by soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion during a military operation in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. 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; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Insurgency; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0252_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96380
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Wounded ERP Guerrilla Captured By Atlacatl Battalion In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A critically wounded guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, lies on the ground after being captured by soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion during a military operation in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. 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; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Insurgency; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0254_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96382
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: View Of Ilopango Air Base
Date: 1984-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Aerial view of the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, September 1, 1984. 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; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; United States foreign policy; Cold War
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0210_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96677
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: View Of Highlands Village In Huehuetenango
Date: 1982-10-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A view of a village in the highlands where Guatemalan army soldiers have had armed encounters with members of the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. In the 36-year domestic armed conflict lasting from 1960 to 1996, an estimated 200,000 people were killed, up to 45,000 civilians were forcibly disappeared, and between 500,000 and 1.5 million people were internally displaced or fled the country. 83 percent of the victims were indigenous Maya people.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Daily life; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0100_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96825
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: U.S.Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the US representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Negroponte
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0007_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: USAID Work for Food Program In Berlin, El Salvador
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Laborers repair a road for a work-for-pay-and-food construction program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, in Berlin, Usulután department, El Salvador, April 1983. USAID efforts in El Salvador were dramatically shaped by U.S. geopolitical concerns during the Cold War. Social and economic programs served as both humanitarian relief and a counterinsurgency strategy of pacification that was refined from its previous employment during the Vietnam War.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Psychological warfare; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Cold War; Development; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0074_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96541
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: USAID Work for Food Program In Berlin, El Salvador
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A group of laborers and their families gather to receive food allotments as part of a work-for-pay-and-food construction program, Berlin, Usulután department, El Salvador, April 1983. The program was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Psychological warfare; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Cold War; Development; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0075_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96542
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: USAID Work for Food Program In Berlin, El Salvador
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A group of laborers and their families gather to receive food allotments as part of a work-for-pay-and-food construction program, Berlin, Usulután department, El Salvador, April 1983. The program was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID. USAID efforts in El Salvador were dramatically shaped by U.S. geopolitical concerns during the Cold War. Social and economic programs served as both humanitarian relief and a counterinsurgency strategy of pacification that was refined from its previous employment during the Vietnam War.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Psychological warfare; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Cold War; Labor; Development; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0025_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96153
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: USAID Work for Food Program In Berlin, El Salvador
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Laborers repair a road for a work-for-pay-and-food construction program, Berlin, Usulután department, El Salvador, April 1983. The program was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Psychological warfare; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Cold War; Development; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0081_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96548
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: USAID Work for Food Program In Berlin, El Salvador
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A group of laborers and their families gather to receive food allotments as part of a work-for-pay-and-food construction program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, in Berlin, Usulután department, El Salvador, April 1983. USAID efforts in El Salvador were dramatically shaped by U.S. geopolitical concerns during the Cold War. Social and economic programs served as both humanitarian relief and a counterinsurgency strategy of pacification that was refined from its previous employment during the Vietnam War.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Psychological warfare; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Cold War; Labor; Development; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0199_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96327
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: USAID Work for Food Program In Berlin, El Salvador
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Laborers repair a road for a work-for-pay-and-food construction program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, in Berlin, Usulután department, El Salvador, April 1983. USAID efforts in El Salvador were dramatically shaped by U.S. geopolitical concerns during the Cold War. Social and economic programs served as both humanitarian relief and a counterinsurgency strategy of pacification that was refined from its previous employment during the Vietnam War.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Psychological warfare; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Cold War; Labor; Development; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0026_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96154
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: USAID Work for Food Program In Berlin, El Salvador
Date: 1983-04-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Laborers repair a road for a work-for-pay-and-food construction program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, in Berlin, Usulután department, El Salvador, April 1983. USAID efforts in El Salvador were dramatically shaped by U.S. geopolitical concerns during the Cold War. Social and economic programs served as both humanitarian relief and a counterinsurgency strategy of pacification that was refined from its previous employment during the Vietnam War.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Development; Labor; Foreign aid; Humanitarian aid; Psychological warfare; United States foreign policy; Cold War; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0101_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96229
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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