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Title
Helicopter flying over San Salvador during papal visit, El Salvador, 1983
Creator
Cross, Richard, 1950-1983
Date Created and/or Issued
1983-03
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
A helicopter flies over San Salvador during Pope John Paul II's visit to El Salvador. The sun shines brightly in the sky. Pope John Paul II traveled to El Salvador to reinforce the Catholic Church's conservative teachings, thereby undermining liberation theology and the efforts of the revolutionaries, who sought to liberate El Salvador from foreign intervention and domination. Thus, Pope John Paul II eliminated the revolution's moral justification, effectively delegitimizing it. Richard Cross took this image in 1982 while covering the presidential election and War of Liberation in El Salvador.
Un helicóptero vuela sobre San Salvador durante la visita del Papa Juan Pablo II a El Salvador. El sol aluza brillantemente en el cielo. El El Papa Juan Pablo II viajó a El Salvador para reforzar las enseñanzas conservadoras de la iglesia católica, así socavando a la teología de la liberación y los esfuerzos de los revolucionarios, quienes buscaban liberar a El Salvador de la intervención y de la dominación extranjera. De este modo, el Papa Juan Pablo II eliminó la justificación moral de la revolución, efectivamente deslegitimandola. Richard Cross tomó esta fotografía en 1982 durante su estadía en El Salvador cubriendo las elecciones y la guerra de liberación.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
color slides
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.sl.B21.06.20.05
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/12877
Subject
El Salvador. Ejército--Airborne troops
Helicopters
Papal visits--El Salvador--San Salvador
Place
San Salvador (El Salvador)
Relation
99.01.RCr.sl.B21.06.20.05.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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