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A young Contra soldier looks intently at the camera while at El Porvenir Farm, located 2 kilometers from the Honduras-Nicaragua border in June 1983. As he sits on the ground, his Belgian FN FAL assault rifle rests on his lap. He has a pen in his left breast pocket and his olive-green cap reads "FDN," which are the initials of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN in Spanish). Members of the FDN are informally known as "Contras." Un joven soldado contra mira intensamente hacia la cámara mientras está en la granja El Porvenir, localizada a dos kilómetros de la frontera entre Honduras y Nicaragua en junio de 1983. Mientras yace sentado sobre el suelo, su fusil FN FAL de origen belga está recargado sobre sus piernas. El tiene una pluma en la bolsa de su camisa y porta una cachucha verde oliva que dice: "FDN," la siglas de la Fuerza Demócratica Nicaragüense, cuyos miembros son conocidos informalmente como la contra.
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