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- Honduran Chief of Security Forces General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, commander in chief of the Honduran security forces, speaks to journalists in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, circa November 1982. General Álvarez permitted the United States to train and arm anti-Nicaraguan government forces - known as the Contras - on Honduran soil and served as the point man for US officials as they funded the anti-Communists to defeat the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Contras; Anti-Communist; Security; FSLN; Sandinistas; Honduras; Central America; Cold War
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0001_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Honduran Chief of Security Forces General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
- Date
- 1982-11-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, commander in chief of the Honduran security forces, speaks to journalists in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, circa November 1982. General Álvarez permitted the United States to train and arm anti-Nicaraguan government forces - known as the Contras - on Honduran soil and served as the point man for US officials as they funded the anti-Communists to defeat the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Contras; Anti-Communist; Security; FSLN; Sandinistas; Honduras; Central America; Cold War
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0002_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image