José Napoleón Duarte, PDC candidate, campaigning, San Salvador

Hospital in Sonsomate, El Salvador

Victims of the Mozote massacre, Morazán

Birthing room in a San Salvador hospital. The population of the country is expected to double by the end of the century, El Salvador

Mass for slain Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR) leaders, Metropolitan Cathedral, San Salvador

National Police, law enforcement branch often linked to the Death Squads, El Salvador

Wounded guerrilla is transported by sling in rebel-held territory, El Salvador

Voting line, woman holds identity card, voting is mandatory, El Salvador

"Masas," supportive population in rebel-held territory, El Salvador

The home of a family of sugar harvesters who live in a rural cooperative, El Salvador

Boy returning home with jug full of creek water. Soldiers searching for guerrillas, El Salvador

Guerrilla camp. Father is holding a U.S.-made M-16 automatic rifle, El Salvador

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Government soldiers, with camouflage grease on their faces, head into combat against the guerrillas in the province of Morazán, El Salvador

School, El Salvador

Lineup of Salvadorans removed from a city bus and questioned by government troops. The soldier, who wears two watches, is examining a national identity card, El Salvador

Juan Rivera and his wife crouch in a crude shelter where they and other civilians have hidden from bombs dropped by government aircraft in the provice of Chalatenango, El Salvador

Rebel camp in the mountains of Chalatenango. The young man blowing smoke rings and his companion, a radio operator, belong to the Faribundo Marti liberation movement, El Salvador

"Mothers of the Disappeared" protest against the death squads in the capital city of San Salvador. Over 70,000 Salvadorans have died in nine years of civil unrest. Most were victims of these "Escuadrones de la Muerte", El Salvador

[Woman and child at clinic, El Salvador]

Soldier in U.S.-backed Salvadoran army relaxes with his radio in San Francisco Gotera. The village is an outpost in Morazán, a province active in army-guerrilla warfare, El Salvador