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- Title
- Argentine President Raul Alfonsin In Buenos Aires
- Date
- 1985-04-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Argentine President Raul Alfonsin (1927-2009) speaks with political and economic leaders at a meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 24, 1985. Winner of the 1983 election, President Alfonsin reorganized the armed forces, charged former military and political leaders with human rights abuses from the "Dirty War", restructured the foreign debt, introduced fiscal reforms (including a new currency), and approved a treaty to resolve a dispute with Chile over three Beagle Channel islands.
- Subject
- Justice; Democracy; Dictatorship; Cold War
- Country
- Argentina
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Raul Alfonsin
- Local Identifier
- argentina_ct_0019_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Brazilian President-Elect Tancredo Neves
- Date
- 1985-01-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- President elect Tancredo Neves (1910-1985) answers questions during a press conference following his election as Brazil's next president in Brasilia, Brazil, 1985. Tancredo Neves was Brazil's first civilian president following 20 years of military rule. Tancredo Neves died in April 1985 and never took power following his inauguration on March 15, 1985.
- Subject
- Elections; Democracy; Latin America
- Country
- Brazil
- Local Identifier
- brazil_nb_0003_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Brigadier General Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores
- Date
- 1983-08-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Brigadier General Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores speaks to the media during a press conference following a coup d’état he led, Guatemala City, Guatemala, early August 1983. Mejía Víctores (1930-2016) forced out President Efraín Ríos Montt and ruled Guatemala from August 1983 to January 1986.
- Subject
- Military; Security; Coup d’Etat; Democracy; Dictatorship
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0129_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Brigadier General Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores
- Date
- 1983-08-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Brigadier General Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, center, speaks to the media during a press conference following a coup d’état he led, Guatemala City, Guatemala, early August 1983. Mejía Víctores (1930-2016) forced out President Efraín Ríos Montt and ruled Guatemala from August 1983 to January 1986.
- Subject
- Military; Security; Coup d’Etat; Democracy; Dictatorship
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0128_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Henry Kissinger Fact Finding Trip To Central America
- Date
- 1983-10-09
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, center, stands with US Ambassador to Honduras, John D Negroponte, center left, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 9, 1983. Kissinger was on a fact finding trip to Central America and to brief the region's leaders that the US would be increasing political and military pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Monroe Doctrine; Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America; Policy
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Henry Kissinger; John D Negroponte
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0033_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Henry Kissinger Fact Finding Trip To Central America
- Date
- 1983-10-09
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, center, answers a question during a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 9, 1983. Kissinger was on a fact finding trip to Central America and to brief the region's leaders that the US would be increasing political and military pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Monroe Doctrine; Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America; Policy
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Henry Kissinger; Lane Kirkland
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0034_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Henry Kissinger Fact Finding Trip To Central America
- Date
- 1983-10-09
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger takes a question from the media during a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 9, 1983. Kissinger was on a fact finding trip to Central America and to brief the region's leaders that the US would be increasing political and military pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Monroe Doctrine; Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Henry Kissinger
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0035_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Honduran Preasident Roberto Suazo Cordova
- Date
- 1981-11-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- The Liberal Party candidate for president Roberto Suazo Cordova, center, is greeted by well-wishers during an election campaign stop in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in November 1981. Suazo Cordova and the Liberal Party won the nationwide election with 54% of the total vote.
- Subject
- Democracy; Vote; Security; Poverty
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Roberto Suazo Cordova
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0019_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1981 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Media In Honduras For Military Operation Big Pine
- Date
- 1983-02-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- National Public Radio correspondent Julia Preston, center, stands among Honduran and US military officers during joint Honduran-United States military maneuvers in Comayagua, Honduras in February 1983. The exercises with several thousand American personnel and called Big Pine, were designed to increase pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government across the border in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America; Media
- Country
- Honduras
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0027_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Media In Honduras For Military Operation Big Pine
- Date
- 1983-02-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- The Guardian Newspaper correspondent Paul Ellman, sits in a US Blackhawk helicopter during joint Honduran-United States military maneuvers in Comayagua, Honduras in February 1983. The exercises with several thousand American personnel and called Big Pine, were designed to increase pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government across the border in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America; Media
- Country
- Honduras
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0028_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Photographer in Guatemala City
- Date
- 1982-03-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A studio photographer stands next to a large format camera, Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 1982.
- Subject
- Military; Security; Coup d’Etat; Democracy; Dictatorship
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0127_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1982 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- US Soldiers In Honduras For Operation Big Pine
- Date
- 1983-02-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Several hundred US and Honduran Army paratroopers land in a field during joint Honduran-United States military maneuvers, called Big Pine, in Comayagua, Honduras in February 1983. The exercises, called Big Pine, were designed to increase political and military pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government across the border in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Monroe Doctrine; Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America; Policy
- Country
- Honduras
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0029_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- US Soldiers In Honduras For Operation Big Pine
- Date
- 1983-02-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Several hundred US and Honduran Army paratroopers land in a field during joint Honduran-United States military maneuvers, called Big Pine, in Comayagua, Honduras in February 1983. The exercises were designed to increase political and military pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government across the border in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Monroe Doctrine; Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America; Policy
- Country
- Honduras
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0031_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- US Soldiers In Honduras For Operation Big Pine
- Date
- 1983-02-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Several hundred US and Honduran Army paratroopers land in a field during joint Honduran-United States military maneuvers, called Big Pine, in Comayagua, Honduras in February 1983. The exercises were designed to increase political and military pressure on the left-wing Sandinista government across the border in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Monroe Doctrine; Conflict; Communism; Democracy; Central America; Policy
- Country
- Honduras
- Local Identifier
- honduras_nb_0030_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg