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Title: Guatemalan Armed Forces Soldier Speaks With American Photographer Susan Meiselas In San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala
Date: 1982-03-08
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Guatemalan Armed Forces soldier speaks with American photographer Susan Meiselas, right, as the Army soldiers collect ballot boxes from the country's national elections one day after the vote in San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala, on March 8, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the elections against the civilian candidate Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; Military; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Ángel Aníbal Guevara; Efraín Ríos Montt; Susan Meiselas
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Susan Meiselas
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0075_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96800
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Title: Los Angeles Times Reporter Dial Torgerson in Santa Cruz del Quiché
Date: 1982-01-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Dial Torgerson (1928-1983), the Mexico and Central America bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, buys roasted peanuts from an indigenous Maya woman across from the Guatemalan Armed Forces regional garrison, upper left, in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 20, 1982. Torgerson and the photographer Richard Cross were killed on June 21, 1983 when their vehicle struck a landmine along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. Initial reports from Western media outlets suggested the car was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from Nicaraguan territory but this was later proved incorrect.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Civilian casualties; Military; Counterinsurgency; Dial Torgerson
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Dial Torgerson
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0034_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96759
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Title: PGT Leaders At A Press Conference Outside of Guatemala City
Date: 1981-07-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Leaders of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Party of Labor, PGT, pose with their weapons during a press conference with international media on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 1, 1981. The brutality and escalation in violence by state military forces led the PGT to join guerrilla organizations the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, and the Organización Revolucionario del Pueblo en Armas, Revolutionary Organization of People in Arms, ORPA, to establish the guerrilla coalition Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, URNG, in February of 1982. The URNG and the Guatemalan government signed the UN-brokered "Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace" on December 29, 1996, formally ending over three decades of conflict.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Cold War; Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (PGT)
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0006_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96970
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