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EL SALVADOR. 1991. - EL SALVADOR. Santa Marta. Cabanas, 1991. - Larry Towell

EL SALVADOR. Santa Marta. Cabanas, 1991.

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Soyapango. 1991. A child holds baby chicks that were found in egg shells in the San Salvador city dump. The eggs were discarded by a chicken hatchery and the chicks will be raised for meat. - Larry Towell

Soyapango. 1991. A child holds baby chicks that were found in egg shells in the San Salvador city dump. The eggs were discarded by a chicken hatchery and the ch

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. A fourteen-year-old pregnant girl lives with teenage glue sniffers in an abandoned trailer at the San Salvador city dump. The art piece was part of a poster found at the dump and used to decorate their trailer. Except for the the girl, named Gloria, all the children living in the trailer are glue sniffers. 1991. - Larry Towell

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. A fourteen-year-old pregnant girl lives with teenage glue sniffers in an abandoned trailer at the San Salvador city dump. The art piece ...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Soyapango. 1991. Teenagers kiss. They live in an abandoned trailer in the San Salvador city dump where individuals and families scavenge for food and material to resell. Gloria is 14 years old and pregnant. Her husband and friends sniff glue to dull the pain of daily life. - Larry Towell

Soyapango. 1991. Teenagers kiss. They live in an abandoned trailer in the San Salvador city dump where individuals and families scavenge for food and material t

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - San Salvador. 1991. Man in Catholic church.
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San Salvador. 1991. Man in Catholic church.
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EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Segundo Montes, Morazan. 1991. Woman smoking. Cigarettes are bad for your health. Some women are too. Some are not. - Larry Towell

Segundo Montes, Morazan. 1991. Woman smoking. Cigarettes are bad for your health. Some women are too. Some are not.

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - - Larry Towell

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - - Larry Towell

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. Mother washing at community

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. Mother washing at community "pila" with newborn baby. Santa Marta was the first village of repatriated refugees established in a con...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. An FMLN guerilla enteres Santa Marta, a village of repatriated refugees during the war. In the early years of the war, campesinos (rural peasant farmers) were massacred by the U.S.-trained and supplied Salvadorean army. They fled into Honduras where they lived in refugee camps. Some lived in camps inside San Salvador. Eventually, during the war, human rights and church organizations encouraged them and assisted them in returning to their places of origin. Santa Marta was the first village of returned refugees and was heavily supportive of the FMLN guerillas throughout the war. Here a young guerilla enters the village to visit family and friends. Rural campesinos had no access to running water or electricity for their homes. Laundry is done at communal water holes, wells and streams. - Larry Towell

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. An FMLN guerilla enteres Santa Marta, a village of repatriated refugees during the war. In the early years of the war, campesinos (...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Segundo Montes, Morazan. 1991. Daycare centre.
©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos - Larry Towell

Segundo Montes, Morazan. 1991. Daycare centre.
©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Santa Marta Cabanas. 1991. Local campesino (peasant) health clinic. The newborn baby is being swung in a hammock while the mother's blood pressure is being checked by the doctor. Behind is the birthing bed. ©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos - Larry Towell

Santa Marta Cabanas. 1991. Local campesino (peasant) health clinic. The newborn baby is being swung in a hammock while the mother's blood pressure is being chec

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Perquin, Morazan. 1991. Government soldier in cemetery in Perquin, one of the guerilla capitals of El Salvador during the war. Occasionally government forces would invade the guerilla strongholds to

Perquin, Morazan. 1991. Government soldier in cemetery in Perquin, one of the guerilla capitals of El Salvador during the war. Occasionally government forces wo...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. A mother and grandmother hold new twins in Santa Marta, the first village of repatriated refugees established in a conflictive zone in 1986. In the early years of the war, campesinos (rural peasant farmers) were massacred by the U.S.-trained and supplied Salvadorean army. They fled into Honduras where they lived in refugee camps. Some lived in camps inside San Salvador. Eventually, during the war, human rights and church organizations encouraged them and assisted them in returning to their places of origin. Returned refugees were heavily supportive of the FMLN guerillas throughout the war. The peace accords were signed in January 1992 ending 12 years of civil war. Poverty remained the cause and the visible symptom of the long war. (El Salvador, page 32-33) ©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos - Larry Towell

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. A mother and grandmother hold new twins in Santa Marta, the first village of repatriated refugees established in a conflictive zone ...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Still life.
Bar, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1991 - Larry Towell

Still life.
Bar, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1991

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. A young boy runs with the only TV set in Santa Marta to plug it into the village's only electrical socket and watch coverage of peace talks in Mexico City between government and guerilla representatives. Santa Marta was the first village of repatriated refugees established in a conflictive zone in 1986. In the early years of the war, campesinos (rural peasant farmers) were massacred by the U.S.-trained and supplied Salvadorean army. They fled into Honduras where they lived in refugee camps. During the war, human rights and church organizations encouraged them and assisted them in returning to their places of origin. Returned refugees were heavily supportive of the FMLN guerillas throughout the war. Poverty remained the cause and the visible symptom of the long war. (El Salvador, page 35) ©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos - Larry Towell

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. A young boy runs with the only TV set in Santa Marta to plug it into the village's only electrical socket and watch coverage of peac...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Segundo Montes, Morazan. 1991. Women carrying boards from sawmill to construction site where residents are constructing a community building. ©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos - Larry Towell

Segundo Montes, Morazan. 1991. Women carrying boards from sawmill to construction site where residents are constructing a community building. ©Larry Towell/Mag

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Soyapango. 1991. Families live in houses made of salvaged plastic in the San Salvador city dump. Residents of the dump salvaged tin, plastic, paper, steel and wood for resale. Some material is used to build their homes where they remain vulnerable to wind, rain and heat and have no running water nor electricity. Third World dumps remain the work and living sites of many of the world's poor. - Larry Towell

Soyapango. 1991. Families live in houses made of salvaged plastic in the San Salvador city dump. Residents of the dump salvaged tin, plastic, paper, steel and w...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - Guarjila, Chalatenago. 1991. Dead guerilla lays in coffin looked upon by fellow combatants (women) following fighting in rural village of Guarjila. The by a tin roof. Civilians surround the combatants who support them. In the months before signing of the peace accords, fighting intensified as the government and guerillas attempted to gain bargaining chips. Women and children mixed in the guerilla ranks. - Larry Towell

Guarjila, Chalatenago. 1991. Dead guerilla lays in coffin looked upon by fellow combatants (women) following fighting in rural village of Guarjila. The by a tin...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - San Salvador. 1991. During the presidential election campaign, a woman and her child squat between TV cameras and the Salvadorean National Police as they attempt to thwart an anti-ARENA demonstration of students and labor unionists along Roosevelt Avenue. ARENA is El Salvador's most right wing party. An airforce helicopter hoovers overhead. A year later the peace accords were signed in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war. The media are often targeted by government forces. Many newspaper, TV and radio offices had been targeted throughout the wars in Central America for reporting anti-government news. (El Salvador, page 50) ©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos - Larry Towell

San Salvador. 1991. During the presidential election campaign, a woman and her child squat between TV cameras and the Salvadorean National Police as they attemp...

EL SALVADOR. 1991. - EL SALVADOR. San Jose las Flores, Chalatenango. FMLN guerillas rest after a day of fighting government soldiers in the cobblestone guerilla village of San Jose las Flores. Although FMLN guerillas usually fought with U.S.-made M-16s captured from the army, an Eastern European AKA leans against the post. Central America was an open market for guns throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Poverty remained the main reason for the conflict. 1991. - Larry Towell

EL SALVADOR. San Jose las Flores, Chalatenango. FMLN guerillas rest after a day of fighting government soldiers in the cobblestone guerilla village of San Jose ...

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