A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s

Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg captures the troubling energy of the early 1980s Cold War political developments in Central America through black-and-white images from El Salvador featured in his book Legacy of Lies. The book illustrates how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent civil war in El Salvador, providing a visual and contextual foundation for the conflict.

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