Title: Legacy of lies, El Salvador 1981-1984
Photographer(s): Robert Nickelsberg
Writer(s): Jon Lee Anderson, Carlos Dada, Alma Guillermoprieto, Robert Nickelsberg, Scott Wallace
Designer(s): Bonnie Briant
Publisher(s): Kehrer, Heidelberg,Germany
Year: 2024
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Language(s): English
Pages: 192
Size: 22 x 29 cm
Binding: Hardcover
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Print: Printed in Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: El Salvador, 1981-1984
ISBN: 978-3-96900-153-0
In the early 1980s, the Cold War clashes that had bloodied other parts of the world shifted to Central America. Following the overthrow of Nicaragua’s Somoza government by the left-wing Sandinista rebels in 1979, the United States sought to prop up El Salvador’s right- wing military government as a backstop against home-grown insurgents and rising Soviet and Cuban influence. Its role helped fuel a lethal 13-year civil war. Legacy of Lies contains previously unpublished black-and-white images that American photographer Robert Nickelsberg produced on behalf of Time magazine and is supplemented by essays by renowned journalists. Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries.
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