A photographer’s devastating documentation of El Salvador’s civil conflict within the Eighties

Guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) converse with residents of San Agustín, Usulután division, on July 5, 1983.

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An armored Cadillac belonging to the U.S. Embassy pulls as much as an arriving U.S. authorities jet airplane in Ilopango, El Salvador, in November 1982.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (middle) speaks to the media throughout a joint press convention with Salvadoran President Álvaro Magaña (middle left with glasses) on the presidential palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Oct. 13, 1983. Kissinger warned the Salvadoran authorities that continued assist from the U.S. was depending on improved respect for human rights.

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Households congregate on the Pacific coast seaside in La Libertad, El Salvador, in April 1983.

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A U.S. Military advisor (left) leads Salvadoran military troopers throughout an open air class in San Juan Opico, El Salvador, on June 20, 1983.

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Salvadoran military recruits grasp from a crossbar throughout a coaching train overseen by U.S. Military Rangers and Particular Forces on the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, in March 1983.

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Salvadoran army commanders and the pinnacle of the Treasury Police, Col. Nicolás Carranza (third from the left), sit throughout a army ceremony on the Escuela Militar Capitán Normal Gerardo Barrios in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, in Could 1983.

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Two guerrillas from the Farabundo Martí In style Liberation Forces (FPL) watch a low-flying Salvadoran army remark airplane close to the Guazapa volcano on the street to Suchitoto, El Salvador, on Oct. 21, 1983.

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Civilians look over the lifeless our bodies of three civil defensemen killed throughout an in a single day assault by guerrillas from the Farabundo Martí Nationwide Liberation Entrance (FMLN) in Santa Clara, El Salvador, in July 1982.

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The sister of a civil defenseman (middle) faints upon listening to of the dying of her brother throughout an in a single day assault on the civil protection put up in Santa Clara, El Salvador, in July 1982.

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Salvadoran laborers load baggage of freshly picked espresso beans destined for export at a privately owned espresso farm in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, in October 1982.

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An altar with a statue of Jesus Christ is carried in a non secular procession by the streets of Perquín, Morazán division, El Salvador, on Oct. 23, 1983.

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Salvadoran members of the Atlacatl battalion cross a river throughout a army operation in San Miguel division, El Salvador, someday in late August or early September 1983.

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Native residents mourn as a truck carrying caskets of lifeless relations arrives in Guadalupe, San Vicente division, El Salvador, on Could 9, 1983.

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Col. Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez, the previous commander of the counterinsurgency unit Destacamiento Militar 2 after which head of the Fourth Brigade, speaks at a public gathering in Sensuntepeque, El Salvador, in September 1984.

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On the central workplace of the Salvadoran Human Rights Fee, a workers member (left) listens to girls relay their instances relating to disappeared members of the family in San Salvador, El Salvador, in August 1983.

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Unidentified males take a look at two corpses within the metropolis morgue in La Libertad, El Salvador, on Aug. 10, 1984. Each victims have been shot within the face and confirmed further indicators of bruising.

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