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- Title
- Newsweek Photographer John Hoagland In Nicaragua Covering The Contra War
- Date
- 1983-01-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Newsweek photographer John Hoagland (1947-1984) walks through mud along a mountainous trail during a Sandinista government trip for journalists to see efforts to fight the US-supported Contras in Nicaragua, January 1983. Hoagland was shot and killed by Salvadoran army soldiers while covering a firefight between Salvadoran soldiers and FMLN guerrillas near Suchitoto, El Salvador on March 16, 1984.
- Subject
- Nicaragua; Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); Media
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Subject -- Personal Name
- John Hoagland
- Local Identifier
- nicaragua_nb_0003_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Nicaragua stamp pages, 1862-1955 [part 1 of 2]
- Date
- 1862-1955
- Creator
- Child, Jack
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Subject
- Postage stamps -- Nicaragua; Postage-stamps album -- Nicaragua; Nicaragua
- Local Identifier
- JCSA_2129
- Type
- postage stamp
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSA_2129
- Rights statement
- IN COPYRIGHT
- Title
- Nicaragua stamp pages, 1956-1989 [part 2 of 2]
- Date
- 1956-1989
- Creator
- Child, Jack
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Subject
- Postage stamps -- Nicaragua; Postage-stamps album -- Nicaragua; Nicaragua
- Local Identifier
- JCSA_2179
- Type
- postage stamp
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSA_2179
- Rights statement
- IN COPYRIGHT
- Title
- Nicaragua stamp pages, 1981-1983 and undated
- Date
- 1981-1983 and undated
- Creator
- Child, Jack
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Subject
- Postage stamps -- Nicaragua; Postage-stamps album -- Nicaragua; Nicaragua
- Local Identifier
- JCSA_2126
- Type
- postage stamp
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSA_2126
- Rights statement
- IN COPYRIGHT
- Title
- Roadside Fruit Market In Managua, Nicaragua
- Date
- 1981-11-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A woman sells bananas and mangoes from a road-side stall in Managua, Nicaragua, November 1981.
- Subject
- Nicaragua; Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Local Identifier
- nicaragua_nb_0001_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1981 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Sandinista Official Tomás Borge Visits Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Date
- 1985-12-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Tomás Borge (1930-2012), a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua (FSLN), looks over a favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1985. Borge was a member of the National Directorate of the FSLN and took charge of the Ministry of Interior when the Sandinistas took power in 1979 until 1990.
- Subject
- Nicaragua; FSLN; Brazil; Sandinista; Politics; Revolutionary
- Country
- Brazil
- Local Identifier
- brazil_ct_0051_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Sandinista Official Tomás Borge Visits Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Date
- 1985-12-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Tomás Borge (1930-2012), a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua (FSLN), looks over a favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1985. Borge was a member of the National Directorate of the FSLN and took charge of the Ministry of Interior when the Sandinistas took power in 1979 until 1990.
- Subject
- Nicaragua; FSLN; Brazil; Sandinista; Politics; Revolutionary
- Country
- Brazil
- Local Identifier
- brazil_ct_0050_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- US Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
- Date
- 1983-06-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the U.S. representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
- Subject
- Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- John D. Negroponte
- Local Identifier
- honduras_ct_0006_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- US Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
- Date
- 1983-06-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the US representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
- Subject
- Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- John D. Negroponte
- Local Identifier
- honduras_ct_0008_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- US Ammunition Along Honduran-Nicaraguan Border During The Contra War
- Date
- 1982-11-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Bullets for a US supplied M-60 machine gun lie on the ground near a Honduran army outpost along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border November 1982. US military aid to Honduras was known to be handed off to the Nicaraguan Contra army operating camps along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. The Contras were the various US-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition to the socialist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua.
- Subject
- Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
- Country
- Honduras
- Local Identifier
- honduras_ct_0005_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1982 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- U.S.Ambassador To Honduras John D. Negroponte
- Date
- 1983-06-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- US Ambassador to Honduras, John D. Negroponte, speaks to journalists about the US government's support for the Nicaraguan Contras in his office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 1983. Negroponte was U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 and served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. He also served in the Bush Administration as the US representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
- Subject
- Civil War; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid; Military Aid; Insurgency; Nicaragua; Contra War; FSLN; Sandinistas
- Country
- Honduras
- Subject -- Personal Name
- John D. Negroponte
- Local Identifier
- honduras_ct_0007_web.tif
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg