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"Coyote," a Contra machine gunner and one of Comandante Suicida's best machine gunners, searches through his backpack on a break near the Honduras-Nicaragua border. Resting on a large rock in front of him there are several bandoliers of ammunition for an M60 light machine gun. On the right of the image there is a Belgian FN FAL assault rifle and on the right there is a U.S. M60 light machine gun. Between the weapons there are several bags. In the background there is a small stream of water. He is a member of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN in Spanish), known informally as "Contras." Un soldado contra, conocidos formalmente como miembros de la Fuerza Demócratica Sandinista, busca en su mochila cerca durante un descanso cerca de la frontera entre Honduras y Nicaragua. Recargadas sobre una piedra grande en frente de él, yacen varias cananas de municiones para una ametralladora ligera M60. A la izquierda de la imagen se observa un fusil belga FN FAL mientras que a la derecha se observa una ametralladora ligera M60 estadounidense. Entre las armas se encuentran varias bolsas. Al fondo de la imagen se observa un arroyo pequeño. Él forma parte de la Fuerza Demócratica Nicaragüense (FDN), conocida informalmente como la contra.
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