EL SALVADOR. Dolores. 1983. Mother of a dead soldier receiving his coffin. ©Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
EL SALVADOR. Atlacatl. 1983. Firing range used by U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion. ©Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
Arrest of auto repair mechanic for failure to carry an ID card, San Salvador, 1979-83 © John HoaglandCollection of the International Center of Photography
Gang members make a revenge pact over the grave of a slain leader. San Salvador, 1996. Donna De Cesare: New York Times
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Government soldiers disembark from an armored personnel carrier in the wealthy suburb of Escalon. Guerrillas had taken over a number of houses there during the November Offensive. Here, government forces helped wealthy residents evacuate before shelling started. This illustrated the difference in how the government treated rich and poor residents. In poor neighborhoods, many civilians were shot if they were in the way, 1989. © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos
SANTA MARTA, El Salvador—A young FMLN guerrilla enters the village to visit family and friends. Rural Campesinos had no access to running water or electricity for their homes. Laundry is done at communal water holes, wells, and streams, 1991. © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos
MORAZAN, El Salvador—Young guerrilla recruits from Segundo Montes rise in the morning to brush their teeth and bathe after sleeping on the forest floor. Peasants remained in strong support of the FMLN guerrillas throughout the war, 1991. © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos
SANTA MARTA, El Salvador—A boy runs with the only TV set in Santa Marta to plug it into the village’s only electrical socket and watch coverage of peace talks in Mexico City between government and guerrilla representatives, 1991. © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos
EL SALVADOR—Guerrillas in the streets, 1985. © Jean Gaumy: Magnum Photos
MORAZAN, El Salvador—A guerrilla woman with a gun and oranges, 1991. © Larry Towell: Magnum Photos
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—A student stands near revolutionary graffiti painted on a wall inside a San Salvador University building. The painting shows an oppressed woman gestating a guerrilla fetus, 1988. © Larry Towell: Magnum Photos
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Child guerrillas in a Soyapango neighborhood during the November Offensive, 1989. © Larry Towell: Magnum Photos
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Marines in front of the U.S. Embassy following a protest against U.S. intervention, 1979. © Susan Meiselas: Magnum Photos
SUCHITOTO, El Salvador—Government soldiers in a church in an area very near the Guazapa Mountain guerrilla stronghold. The Catholic Church suffered persecution because it spread liberation theology, 1986. © Larry Towell: Magnum Photos
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Young guerrillas in need of prosthetics take refuge inside El Calvario Church during the November Offensive. While awaiting transportation to Cuba for treatment, they were trapped by the government army, 1989. © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—A former government soldier learns to cane chairs after the war. During the 12-year civil war, several thousand soldiers lost their feet to homemade land mines laid by guerrillas, often made from the nitrogen in imported fertilizer. A homemade land mine would normally only maim, while the U.S.-made Claymore land mines, used by government forces against guerrillas, usually killed the person who tripped them. The brief “job-training” offered after the war was inadequate to help the maimed find meaningful work again. Most of the government soldiers had been forcibly conscripted. Most were rural peasants. After the war, disabled guerrillas and government soldiers united to lobby for more government aid, 1995. © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos
Mercenary, El Salvador. Derek Hudson
EL SALVADOR. El Mozote. 1993. The Memorial at El Mozote. The plaque reads, “They did not die, they are with us, with you and with all humanity.” ©Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
