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A Contra soldier poses for a picture while holding his FN FAL assault rifle at El Porvenir Farm, located two kilometers from the Honduras-Nicaragua border. He is sitting on a wooden box and wearing a gray fisherman's hat. The image was taken on June 1983. He is a member of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN in Spanish), whose members are known informally as "Contras." Un soldado contra posa para una foto mientras sostiene su fusil FN FAL en la granja El Porvenir, localizada a dos kilómetros de la frontera entre Honduras y Nicaragua. El yace sentado sobre una caja de madera y porta un gorro de pescador gris. La imagen fue tomada en junio de 1983. Él forma parte de la Fuerza Demócratica Nicaragüense (FDN), cuyos miembros son conocidos informalmente como la contra.
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