
The mother of a dead soldier receives his coffin during the civil war in El Salvador. — Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
1979-1988
The poverty and political instability that accompanies the Sandinistas' rise to power and Nicaragua's contra war, as well as the civil war in El Salvador, trigger the migration of hundreds of thousands of citizens from the two Central American countries.











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