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Title: Civilians Flee Fighting In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local residents move their belongings before an assault by the Atlacatl Battalion as soldiers advance during a military operation in pursuit of FMLN guerrillas in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. Residents would eventually return to their homes and farms. 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; United States foreign policy; Daily life; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0264_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96392
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Flee Fighting In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local residents move their belongings before an assault by the Atlacatl Battalion in pursuit of guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN, in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. Residents would eventually return to their homes and farms. 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.
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_nb_0267_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96395
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Flee Fighting In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local residents move their belongings before an assault by the Atlacatl Battalion as soldiers advance 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. Residents would eventually return to their homes and farms. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritarian regimes, backed by the United States, and the FMLN guerrilla coalition. 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; Daily life; Atlacatl Battalion; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0049_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96177
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Dead ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A dead guerrilla fighter from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, lies on a dirt road after a military operation by the Atlacatl Battalion in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. The twelve-year conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Military; Military aid; Atlacatl Battalion; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0164_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96631
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Dead ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A dead guerrilla fighter from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, lies on a dirt road after a military operation by the Atlacatl Battalion in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. The twelve-year conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Military; Military aid; Atlacatl Battalion; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0165_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96632
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Dead ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran soldier with the Atlacatl Battalion looks over the body of a dead guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, killed during a military operation in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. The twelve-year conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Military; Military aid; Atlacatl Battalion; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0166_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96633
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Dead ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran soldier with the Atlacatl Battalion removes the weapons belt of a dead guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, killed during a military operation in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. The twelve-year conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Military; Military aid; Atlacatl Battalion; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0167_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96634
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Death Of Salvadoran Army Soldiers In Morazán
Date: 1983-10-24
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Salvadoran woman stands outside a military hospital hoping to see her husband, Juan Pablo Rivas, who was reportedly killed along with 13 other army soldiers in a helicopter explosion over the Morazán department, El Salvador, October 24, 1983. Among those killed were Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa and other field commanders of high rank. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Military aid; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0113_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96241
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
Date: 1984-10-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran military officers and civilians carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army's best field officer.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa; Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0034_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96162
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
Date: 1984-10-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran military officers carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa in a funeral procession with his wife, back center, and family following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army’s best field officer.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0219_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96686
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
Date: 1984-10-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: The wife of the late Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa prays over his coffin in a funeral procession with Salvadoran military officers and family following Monterrosa’s death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army’s best field officer.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0220_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96687
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral For Salvadoran Army Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa
Date: 1984-10-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, left, and the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, right, at the funeral procession with Monterrosa’s family and military officers following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and was hailed by American advisors as the army’s best field officer.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0221_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96688
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral For Salvadoran Army Major Armando Azmitia
Date: 1984-10-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran military officers and civilians carry the coffin of Major Armando Azmitia following his death in a helicopter explosion in the Morazán department four days before, San Salvador, El Salvador, October 27, 1984. Among those killed in the explosion were Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa and other field commanders of high rank. Azmitia was commander of the Atlacatl Battalion, the United States-trained rapid reaction unit directed by Monterrosa until he was elevated to regional command in November of 1983. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military funerals; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Military aid; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; School of the Americas; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Armando Azmitia; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Joaquín Villalobos
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0031_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96159
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: John Hoagland In Tenancingo, El Salvador
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Photographer John Hoagland (1947-1984) observes soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion advance during a military operation in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. Hoagland, a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine, was shot and killed by the Salvadoran army in crossfire during an ambush by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, on March 16, 1984 in Suchitoto, El Salvador.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Civilian casualties; Military; Military aid; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Human rights violations; Atlacatl Battalion; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); John Hoagland
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: John Hoagland
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0037_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96165
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: John Hoagland In Tenancingo, El Salvador
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Photographer John Hoagland (1947-1984) observes soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion advance during a military operation in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. Ivan Montecinos, a photographer for United Press International (UPI), stands behind Hoagland. Hoagland, a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine, was shot and killed by the Salvadoran army in crossfire during an ambush by guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, on March 16, 1984 in Suchitoto, El Salvador.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Civilian casualties; Military; Military aid; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Human rights violations; Atlacatl Battalion; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); John Hoagland
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: John Hoagland; Ivan Montecinos
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0038_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96166
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Journalists Interview Fleeing Residents In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Journalists interview local residents as they move their belongings before an assault by the Atlacatl Battalion 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. Residents would eventually return to their homes and farms. 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; Daily life; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Insurgency; Atlacatl Battalion; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Luis Romero; Carlos Rosas Caitan
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0036_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96164
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Journalists Interview Fleeing Residents In Tenancingo
Date: 1983-09-27
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Journalists interview local residents as they move their belongings before an assault by the Atlacatl Battalion 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. Residents would eventually return to their homes and farms. 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; Daily life; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; Insurgency; Foreign correspondents; Atlacatl Battalion; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Ivan Montecinos; Carlos Rosas; Luis Alberto Romero
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0263_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96456
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa In San Miguel Department
Date: 1984-09-05
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa speaks to a crowd of civilians during a military operation to clear the rural area of ERP guerrillas, San Miguel department, El Salvador, September 5, 1984. Just weeks after his visit, Monterrosa was killed along with 13 other Salvadoran army soldiers in a helicopter explosion near Joateca, Morazán department on October 23, 1984. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Psychological warfare; Human rights violations; Cold War; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; School of the Americas; Joaquín Villalobos; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Domingo Monterrosa
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0175_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96303
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa In San Miguel Department
Date: 1984-09-05
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa speaks to a crowd of civilians during a military operation in Botejon, San Miguel department, El Salvador, September 5, 1984. Three weeks after this visit, Monterrosa was killed along with 13 other Salvadoran army soldiers while the soldiers were retrieving a booby trapped FMLN radio transmitter on October 23, 1984 in Joateca, Morazán department. FMLN guerrillas led by Joaquín Villalobos, who had previously denounced Monterrosa and his command authority over the Atlacatl Battalion for carrying out the December 1981 civilian massacre in El Mozote, claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Military aid; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa; Joaquín Villalobos
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Domingo Monterrosa
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0071_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96199
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa With The Atlacatl Battalion In San Miguel Department
Date: 1983-08-23
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, right, speaks with one of his junior officers, left, as soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion pursue guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 23, 1983. Monterrosa trained at the School of the Americas and headed the controversial Atlacatl Battalion, one of the rapid reaction counterinsurgency battalions coordinated and funded by the United States. The Atlacatl Battalion, under Monterrosa’s command, was responsible for the infamous El Mozote massacre of December 1981, which remains the largest single massacre in recent Latin American history.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Human rights violations; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Atlacatl Battalion; Domingo Monterrosa
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Domingo Monterrosa
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0124_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96591
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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