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A child Contra soldier looks intensely at the camera as he poses for a photo as he sits on the ground holding his Soviet Kalashnikov assault rifle while at El Porvenir Farm, located two kilometers from the Honduras-Nicaragua border in June 1983. The Nicaraguan countryside can be seen in the background of the image. Though a child, he is a member of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN in Spanish), whose members are known informally as "Contras." Un niño soldado de los contras mira intensamente a la cámara mientras posa para una foto sentado sobre el suelo sosteniendo su fusil Kalashnikov de origen soviético en la granja El Porvenir, localizada a dos kilómetros de la frontera entre Honduras y Nicaragua en junio de 1983. El campo nicaragüense se observa al fondo de la imagen. Aunque aún es niño, él forma parte de la Fuerza Demócratica Nicaragüense, conocida informalmente como la contra.
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