Search results

Title: Training El Salvador's Army In San Miguel, El Salvador
Date: 1983-08-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran Army soldier holds his certificate of training after completing a course taught by a US-trained Salvadoran Army officer in San Miguel, El Salvador on August 20, 1983.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Daily life; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0280_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Officer Captain Medina Garay Questioned By Media
Date: 1982-11-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Alberto Barrera from the Associated Press, third left with tape recorder, and members of the Salvadoran media question an army officer, Captain Carlos Napoleón Medina Garay, center right, in Santa Clara, El Salvador, November 1982. It had been reported that Medina Garay was responsible for ordering the army massacre of 50 local civilians in El Junquillo, Cacaopera in the Morazán department during a military attack on March 12, 1981.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Daily life; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Alberto Barrera; Dionisio Hernández; Carlos Napoleón Medina Garay
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0279_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
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: Training El Salvador's Army In San Miguel, El Salvador
Date: 1983-08-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran Army soldiers hold their certificates of training after completing a course taught by a US-trained Salvadoran Army officer in San Miguel, El Salvador on August 20, 1983.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Daily life; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0048_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Training Operation In Central El Salvador
Date: 1984-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran Army soldiers conduct a training operation accompanied by two US supplied Bell UH-1 helicopters in central El Salvador in January 1984.
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_0278_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Monterrosa In Morazán Department, An ERP Stronghold
Date: 1984-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: The Atlacatl Battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, speaks to to a crowd of local residents in Morazán department, El Salvador, September 1984.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Daily life; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0275_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: General Benedicto Lucas García In Quiché, Guatemala
Date: 1982-01-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan Chief of Army staff General Benedicto Lucas García, center, speaks with Washington Post reporter Christopher Dickey, right, and Colonel Byron Lima Estrada, left, at the regional military garrison in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 20, 1982. Colonel Lima Estrada was commander of the Quiché department army garrison.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Cold War; Benedicto Lucas García; Byron Lima Estrada
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Benedicto Lucas García; Chris Dickey
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0116_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: US Ammunition Along Honduran-Nicaraguan Border During The Contra War
Date: 1982-11-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Bullets for a US supplied M-60 machine gun lie on the ground near a Honduran army outpost along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border November 1982. US military aid to Honduras was known to be handed off to the Nicaraguan Contra army operating camps along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. The Contras were the various US-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition to the socialist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua.
Subject: Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
Country: Honduras
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0005_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: US 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 US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the U.S. 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_0006_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
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: US 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 US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US 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_0008_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Henry A. Kissinger Visits Honduras As Head Of US Commission On Central America
Date: 1983-10-09
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Henry A. Kissinger arrives in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to speak with Central American leaders as US President Reagan's head of the US Presidential commission on Central America October 9, 1983. Kissinger intends to promote US foreign policy in the region with increased support for the El Salvadoran government and to approve American military support for the anti-Sandinista Contra army assembling and training on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. US Ambassador to El Salvador Thomas R. Pickering and Republican US Senator Jack Kemp, left and center, stand behind Kissinger, partially blocked.
Subject: Honduras; Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Media
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: Henry A. Kissinger; Jack Kemp; Thomas R. Pickering; Lane Kirkland; James Wright
Local Identifier: honduras_nb_0003_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: US Army Training Officer In Honduras
Date: 1983-06-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: US Army LTC Mirus observes Honduran Army soldiers during a rifle training exercise in at a base in Honduras June 1983. The US Army officers and soldiers come under the authority of Southern Command.
Subject: Training; Instructor; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid
Country: Honduras
Local Identifier: honduras_ct_0004_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Newsweek Photographer John Hoagland In Nicaragua Covering The Contra War
Date: 1983-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Newsweek photographer John Hoagland (1947-1984) walks through mud along a mountainous trail during a Sandinista government trip for journalists to see efforts to fight the US-supported Contras in Nicaragua, January 1983. Hoagland was shot and killed by Salvadoran army soldiers while covering a firefight between Salvadoran soldiers and FMLN guerrillas near Suchitoto, El Salvador on March 16, 1984.
Subject: Nicaragua; Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Media
Country: Nicaragua
Subject -- Personal Name: John Hoagland
Local Identifier: nicaragua_nb_0003_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Roadside Fruit Market In Managua, Nicaragua
Date: 1981-11-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A woman sells bananas and mangoes from a road-side stall in Managua, Nicaragua, November 1981.
Subject: Nicaragua; Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: Nicaragua
Local Identifier: nicaragua_nb_0001_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 1982 Coup Planner Captain Rodolfo Muñoz
Date: 1982-03-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A view of Captain Carlos Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña, center, as he walks down a hallway in the Guatemalan National Palace on March 23, 1982, after the military coup d'etat that installed General Ríos Montt into power. Captain Muñoz was the mastermind behind the military coup.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Cold War
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0117_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: FMLN Attack In Santa Clara Kills 6 Civil Defensemen
Date: 1982-07-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers stand in the streets following a guerrilla attack on a civil defense post in Santa Clara, El Salvador, July 1, 1982. Guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, attacked overnight killing six civil defensemen before Salvadoran army soldiers arrived the next morning to retake the town. Civil defense units in El Salvador were under military command and operated particularly in rural areas where guerrilla support was high.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Military; Counterinsurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0312_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96128
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Monterrosa With The Atlacatl Battalion In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: The commanding officer of the Atlacatl Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, left, questions a local resident, center, as soldiers advance 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 rapid response counterinsurgency battalion and was implicated in some of the most infamous human rights violations of the twelve-year armed conflict. The UN Truth Commission for El Salvador named the Atlacatl Battalion under Monterrosa's command responsible for the massacre of nearly 1,000 civilians in El Mozote in 1981, considered the worst massacre in modern Latin American history.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; United States foreign policy; Cold War; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Domingo Monterrosa
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0002_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96130
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Atlacatl Battalion In Pursuit Of FMLN Guerrillas In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A wounded soldier, center, from the Atlacatl Battalion 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 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; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0003_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96131
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Officers Attend A Military Ceremony In Santa Tecla
Date: 1983-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran military commanders and the head of the Treasury Police Colonel Nicolás Carranza, 3rd left, sit during a military ceremony at the Escuela Militar Capitán General Gerardo Barrios in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, May 1, 1983. Carranza worked with Roberto D'Aubuisson and José Guillermo García to establish the paramilitary network of death squads around the country in the late 1970s. As Vice Minister of Defense from 1979 to 1981 and head of the notorious Treasury Police in 1983, he exercised command over the forces responsible for widespread attacks on civilians. A paid CIA informant who received $90,000 annually to procure intelligence on the Salvadoran left, he resided in the United States from 1985 until his death in 2017. In 2015, Carranza was found guilty in United States Federal District Court for crimes against humanity, extrajudicial assassination, and torture.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Human rights violations; Death squads; Trials; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Roberto D'Aubuisson; José Guillermo García; Nicolás Carranza
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Nicolás Carranza
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0007_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96135
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Content Warning

Pages

Pages