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- Title
- ABC Television Crew Films ERP Guerrillas In El Salvador
- Date
- 1983-05-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A television crew from ABC films a young fighter from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, as guerrillas stop commercial traffic along the Pan American Highway in Usulatán department, El Salvador, May 1, 1983. Guerrilla tactics for disrupting the transportation of commercial goods were employed in protest of economic inequality and to show defiance to the authoritarian state regime.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Economy; Development; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
- Country
- United States
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Timothy Ross
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0102_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96230
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Atlacatl Battalion In Military Operation In San Miguel Department
- Date
- 1983-08-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran soldiers from the Atlacatl Battalion wake in the early morning in fog-enveloped hills before moving into position against armed guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 1, 1983. 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; Military; Military aid; United States foreign policy; Counterinsurgency; Cold War; Insurgency; Atlacatl Battalion; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0079_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96207
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Civilian In San Miguel During ERP and Salvadoran Army Battle
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A civilian resident stands outside his gate, recently painted with the name of a formation of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, La Brigada Arce Zablah, as ERP guerrillas engage in combat with government security forces in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Considered the most militarily powerful of the guerrilla factions that constituted the coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, the ERP organized the elite unit Brigada Arce Zablah outside of regular military forces. The brigade takes its name from a former leader within the organization, Rafael Arce Zablah, who was killed in combat in 1975.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Communism; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0140_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96607
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Dead ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel Department
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A dead guerrilla fighter from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, lies on a dirt road after being killed during a Salvadoran army operation in San Miguel department, September 1, 1983. The twelve-year conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Counterinsurgency; Military; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP); Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0100_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96228
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Dead ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel Department
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Larry Price, photographer with the Philadelphia Enquirer, takes a picture of a dead guerrilla fighter from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, killed during a Salvadoran army operation in San Miguel department, September 1, 1983. The twelve-year armed conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Larry Price
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0080_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96208
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- 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
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96631
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- 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
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96632
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- 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
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96633
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- 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
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96634
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Attack On San Miguel
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A Salvadoran guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, holds a Heckler & Koch G3 assault rifle across his shoulders during an attack in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. The guerrilla's weapon and clothing were likely sold to him or captured from a member of the Salvadoran Armed Forces. The trading of arms and uniforms to the guerrilla insurgency presented a lucrative opportunity for underpaid army soldiers throughout the war.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Guerrilla warfare; Insurgency; Arms trade; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0154_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96621
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Burns Vehicles On Pan Amercian Highway
- Date
- 1983-03-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A member of the Salvadoran guerrilla group Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, stands in front of two burning commercial vehicles on the Pan American Highway in Usulután, El Salvador, March 1, 1983. Guerrillas tactics for disrupting the transportation of commercial goods were employed in protest of economic inequality and to show defiance to the authoritarian state regime.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Communism; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0182_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96310
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrilla Attack In San Miguel
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran soldiers with the Guardia Nacional and Policía Nacional take cover during an attack by guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Both the Guardia Nacional and the Policía Nacional, along with the Policía de Hacienda, were dissolved and demobilized as a part of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992 for grave human rights violations committed before and during the twelve-year civil war.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Guerrilla warfare; Insurgency; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0148_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96615
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrilla Attack In San Miguel
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran soldiers with the Guardia Nacional and Policía Nacional take cover during an attack by guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Both the Guardia Nacional and the Policía Nacional, along with the Policía de Hacienda, were dissolved and demobilized as a part of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992 for grave human rights violations committed before and during the twelve-year civil war.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Guerrilla warfare; Insurgency; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0149_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96616
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrilla Attack In San Miguel
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran soldiers with the Guardia Nacional and Policía Nacional take cover during an attack by guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Both the Guardia Nacional and the Policía Nacional, along with the Policía de Hacienda, were dissolved and demobilized as a part of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992 for grave human rights violations committed before and during the twelve-year civil war.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Guerrilla warfare; Insurgency; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0150_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96617
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrilla Attack In San Miguel
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Salvadoran soldiers with the Guardia Nacional and Policía Nacional take cover during an attack by guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Both the Guardia Nacional and the Policía Nacional, along with the Policía de Hacienda, were dissolved and demobilized as a part of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992 for grave human rights violations committed before and during the twelve-year civil war.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Guerrilla warfare; Insurgency; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0157_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96624
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrilla During Attack In San Miguel
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Portrait of a guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, as she stands in front of a Salvadoran government building occupied during an ERP attack in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Salvadoran women were present in all levels of leadership in guerrilla organizations, constituting their significant incorporation into the political struggle. An estimated 30% of the full force of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, was comprised of women.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Communism; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0145_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96612
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, stands on the street as black smoke rises during combat with government security forces in San Miguel, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Salvadoran guerrilla organizations formed in the early 1970s and experienced broad support, particularly among the rural sectors of the population, as a consequence of increased state repression and exclusion from political participation.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Communism; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0142_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96609
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrilla In San Miguel Department
- Date
- 1983-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A young guerrilla fighter with the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, stops traffic during a transportation strike along the Pan American Highway in San Miguel department, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. The Pan American Highway in El Salvador was a contentious site for guerrilla attacks and army retaliation throughout the armed conflict. The FMLN attacked infrastructure and commerce in campaigns of economic sabotage, further testing military units and disrupting the daily life of civilians.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Economy; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0156_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96623
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrillas In El Salvador
- Date
- 1983-05-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, prepares a recoilless rifle weapon during a firefight with government security forces in Santa Rosa de Lima, eastern El Salvador, May 1, 1983. The ERP were considered the most militarily powerful of the guerrilla factions that constituted the coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Civilian casualties; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0098_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96565
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- ERP Guerrillas In El Salvador
- Date
- 1983-05-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An unidentified Salvadoran guerrilla from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, stands on the steps of a brick building in Santa Rosa de Lima, eastern El Salvador, May 1, 1983. 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; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0101_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96568
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg