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Title
Salvadoran politician sitting in his office, San Salvador, 1983
Creator
Cross, Richard, 1950-1983
Date Created and/or Issued
1983-02
Publication Information
California State University, Northridge
Contributing Institution
California State University, Northridge
Collection
Richard Cross Photographs (Bradley Center)
Rights Information
Use of images from the collections of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center is strictly prohibited by law without prior written consent from the copyright holders. The responsibility for the use of these materials rests exclusively with the user.
The Bradley Center may assist in obtaining copyright/licensing permission to use images from the Richard Cross collection. http://www.csun.edu/bradley-center/contact
Description
Close-up of Roberto d'Aubuisson in his office in the capital, San Salvador, after presiding over a Constituent Assembly meeting, El Salvador. The politician is smoking a cigarette. A year before, in March 1982, D'Aubuisson's party, the Nationalist Repubblican Alliance (ARENA), won a third of the seats in the Constituent Assembly. In 1993, a report published by the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador established that it was Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta who gave the order to assassinate Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980. The extreme-right Salvadoran soldier was also a leader of the death squads put in place to eliminate leftists opponents.
una imagen de cerca de Roberto d'Aubuisson en su oficina en la capital San Salvador, después de una reunión de la Asamblea Constituyente, El Salvador. El político está sentado en su escritorio y está encendiendo un cigarrillo. Un año antes, en marzo de 1982, el partido de D'Aubuisson, la Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA), ganó un tercio de las sillas en la Asamblea Constituyente. En 1993, la Comisión de la Verdad para El Salvador estableció que Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta ordenó el asesinato del arzobispo Óscar Arnulfo Romero en 1980. El soldado salvadoreño de extrema derecha también era un líder de los escuadrones de la muerte establecidos para eliminar a los opositores izquierdistas.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
black-and-white negatives
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.N35.B11.07.39.22
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/2850
Subject
Civil War
El Salvador
Documentary photographs
El Salvador--History--1979-1992
El Salvador--Politics and Government--1979-1992
D'Aubuisson, Roberto
Place
San Salvador (El Salvador)
Relation
99.01.RCr.N35.B11.07.39.22.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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