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Two girls are found in area occupied earlier by guerrillas, near San Isidro, 60 miles east from San Salvador, El Salvador. The girls are shown smiling in a helicopter with two soliders, ready to be flown back to capital and put into orphanage. These girls had not eaten anything in two days. An estimated 8,000 people disappeared during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 Civil War, including thousands of children. Many of them were separated from their parents and entrusted to corrupt adoption agencies that placed children in homes in other countries. Se encuentran dos niñas en el área ocupada anteriormente por guerrilleros, cerca de San Isidro, 60 millas al este de San Salvador, El Salvador. Se muestra las niñas sonriendo en un helicóptero con dos soldados, listas para ser trasladadas de regreso a la capital y puestas en un orfanato. Estas chicas no habían comido nada en dos días. Se calcula que unas 8,000 personas desaparecieron durante la guerra civil de El Salvador entre 1980 y 1992, incluyendo miles de niños. Muchos de ellos estaban separados de sus padres y confiados a agencias de adopción corruptas que colocaban a niños en hogares de otros países.
Civil War El Salvador Documentary photographs Children El Salvador--History--1979-1992 El Salvador--Politics and Government--1979-1992 El Salvador--Social Conditions Helicopters El Salvador. Ejército Military helicopters Orphans Civilians in War War and society
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