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Title: Captured Members Of ORDEN, A Right Wing Paramilitary Unit In Chalatenango Department
Date: 1981-02-22
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Leftist guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, interrogate a family member involved in the paramilitary group Organización Democrática Nacionalista, National Democratic Organization, ORDEN, seated center right, after a takeover of a nearby village in Santa Anita, El Salvador, February 22, 1981. ORDEN was established in the late 1960s with support from the United States Army Special Forces by General José Alberto Medrano, known as the father of Salvadoran counterinsurgency. ORDEN, along with the Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Salvadoreña, National Security Agency of El Salvador, ANSESAL, widely considered to be the origin of the death squads, were employed by the military to infiltrate and terrorize rural populations considered subversive to the regime. Although ORDEN was nominally disbanded in 1979, many of its members were folded into civil defense units who continued to use extrajudicial violence and torture to repress the civilian population throughout the armed conflict.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Death squads; Human rights violations; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación (FPL); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Organización Democrática Nacionalista (ORDEN); Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Salvadoreña (ANSESAL)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0091_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96219
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: FPL Captures Members Of Right Wing Death Squad In Chalatenango Department
Date: 1981-02-22
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guerrilla fighters from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, interrogate family members of a right-wing death squad, right with cap, following an overnight attack on a nearby village in Santa Anita, El Salvador, February 22, 1981. At the time the FPL controlled the majority of the mountainous Chalatenango department. FPL merged with four leftist organizations in 1980 to form the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. The group drew its name from Salvadoran communist leader and revolutionary Agustín Farabundo Martí, whose 1932 peasant revolt had lasting consequences for the indigenous and campesino communities.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Death squads; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación (FPL); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0086_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96214
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Liberated FPL Territory In Chalatemango Department
Date: 1981-02-22
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: In territory held by guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, a fighter stands at attention near Santa Anita, Chalatenango department, El Salvador, February 22, 1981. FPL, as a member of the coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, acquired arms and strategic support from socialist parties in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Soviet Union to fund their campaigns. The FMLN and their political counterpart the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR, were recognized as the established insurgency in El Salvador and played an integral role in the 1992 peace accords.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Cold War; Arms trade; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación (FPL); Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Frente Democrático Revolucionario (FDR)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0087_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96215
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Liberated FPL Territory In Chalatenango Department
Date: 1981-02-22
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: In territory held by guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, a fighter stands at attention near Santa Anita, Chalatenango department, El Salvador, February 22, 1981. FPL, as a member of the coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, acquired arms and strategic support from socialist parties in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Soviet Union to fund their campaigns. The FMLN and their political counterpart the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR, were recognized as the established insurgency in El Salvador and played an integral role in the 1992 peace accords.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Cold War; Arms trade; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación (FPL); Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Frente Democrático Revolucionario (FDR)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0089_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96217
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Liberated FPL Territory In Chalatenango Department
Date: 1981-02-22
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: In territory held by guerrillas from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, a fighter stands at attention near Santa Anita, Chalatenango department, El Salvador, February 22, 1981. FPL, as a member of the coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, acquired arms and strategic support from socialist parties in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Soviet Union to fund their campaigns. The FMLN and their political counterpart the Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Revolutionary Democratic Front, FDR, were recognized as the established insurgency in El Salvador and played an integral role in the 1992 peace accords.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Cold War; Arms trade; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación (FPL); Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Frente Democrático Revolucionario (FDR)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0088_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96216
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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