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EL SALVADOR: POLICE UNCOVER 3 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE
San Salvador, El Salvador - 17 August 1997
1. Mid shot pan of cocaine haul
2. Close up sign, pull out to detainee
3. Cocaine
4. Close up heroin haul
5. Close up sign, pull out to detainee and heroin
6. Heroin
7. Wide shot truck and...
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SYND 25/9/80 LEFTIST GUERRILLAS HOLD HOSTAGES AT OAS HEADQUARTERS IN SAN SALVADOR
Left-wing guerrillas in San Salvador are continuing to hold about a dozen hostages in the headquarters of the Organisation of American States (OAS) building.
1. various ws exterior of OAS building adorned with leftist banners
2....
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SPAIN: SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ARMANDO CALDERON SOL ARRIVES FOR VISIT
Natural Sound
Salvadoran President, Armando Calderon Sol, arrived in Spain Monday for a three-day official visit.
Calderon is looking for more Spanish investment in El Salvador and an increase in bilateral cooperation.
Spain has...
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SYND 1 7 80 FURTHER VIOLENCE
Violence continues in El Salvador where a university student is shot by a policeman. Elsewhere security forces broke into classrooms looking for left wing propaganda material and found papers and coffins.
1. vs troop activity and...
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EL SALVADOR: JOCUATIQUE: MASS GRAVE DISCOVERED
Spanish/Nat
El Salvador yields yet another killing field.
A mass grave containing the remains of young men was discovered in the town of Jocuatique, in the province of Mozaran, 200 km from San Salvador.
These are the scars of the town...
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SYND 15 6 80 AFTERMATH OF SAN SALVADOR BOMBING CAMPAIGN
Increasing death toll in the virtual civil war and destruction on right and left sides of political spectrum. Bombs destroyed the home of a wealthy doctor, and an outdoor market place in a poor part of San Salvador was devastated by...
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SYND 31 3 80 BODY OF ASSASSINATED ARCHBISHOP ROMERO LAYS IN STATE IN SAN SALVADOR
Body of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero lays in state in San Salvador's cathedral.
1. ms placards on rails in street
2. gv queues outside cathedral
3. ms young guard letting people past barriers
4. various of people being...
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UNUSED 18 11 80 AFTERMATH CAR MURDER, POLICE CAR IN RAVINE
More murder in El Salvador.
1. ms crowd stand around truck with smashed windscreen
2. ms body of man lies across the front seats
3. ms boy stands in the back of truck
4. ms crying woman lies over body
5. ws tow truck, pan to crowd and...
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SYND 29 8 80 EXPLOSIVES CACHE FOUND AND FDR PRESS CONFERENCE
The leftist Frente Democratica Revolucionaria (FDR) hold press conference to explain their views on the ruling junta's new state of emergency and on government policies. Spokesman Jose Martel states their case. Elsewhere security...
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UPITN 31 5 80 MLP PDC LP28 SPEECHES AT UNIVERSITY
Left wing groups in El Salvador hold a conference at San Salvador university.
1. vs of the party representatives arriving to cheering crowds and taking their places on stage
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): vs of representatives speaking to the...
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SYND 8/12/80 MILITANT CROWDS ATTEND FUNERAL FOR 6 LEADING LEFT WING LEADERS
Combined funeral for 6 leading left wing leaders, killed in the country's political violence
1. exterior cathedral, San Salvador
2. people waiting to go inside
3. various shots, people file past coffins, fists raised in salute
4. gv...
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UNUSED 11 9 80 CHURCH MASS IN POOR QUARTER OF CITY
A special mass and holy communion has been held in an improvised church in a poor quarter of San Salvador.
1. ms priest putting on vestments
2. ms congregation
3. ms priest starts service
4. mcu priest holding service, reading from piece...
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UNUSED 25 7 80 TROOPS BY BUS FAMILIES UNDER SHELTER
San Salvadorian refugees attempt to make their way by bus to the Costa Rican embassy but are stopped by troops following an anonymous telephone call leaking the refugees plans to local authorities. The footage also contains scenes of the...
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GS CAS SAN SALVADOR: Report on incident in which Deputy Commander
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Schaufelberger is shot dead at the University of Central
America. The Marxist...
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GUATEMALA: EARTHQUAKE: AFTERMATH
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A major earthquake has rocked Central America, killing at least 122 people across the region.
El Salvador was the worst hit with at least 120 people killed and about 1-thousand-200 people believed to be missing in the...
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SYND 5/5/80 MAY DAY PARADE AND FURTHER VIOLENCE
The annual May Day Parade in San Salvador ended in murder by security forces. Several young men who appeared to have had their throats cut.
1. vs May Day leftist marchers, banners
2. various ms marchers putting banner on railings and...
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SYND 27/07/69 OAS MEETING ABOUT EL SALVADOR CHARGES
Organization of American states agrees to send team to investigate atrocity charges in El Salvador Honduras conflict
1 gv OAS HQ with demonstrators and police
2 ms Uruguary delegation arrives and into building
3 ms Honduras delegation...
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SYND 23 8 80 SOLDIERS KILL FARMERS IN EL SALVADOR
At least 19 people have been killed in political violence, including 12 farm labourers, shot by soldiers who claimed the peasants were guerrillas
1. various shots, 2 bodies lying at roadside
2. ms man uncovers another body
3. ms...
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Prison riot quelled after gunmen slay suspects in deaths of politicians
Guatemala City - 26 February 2007
1. Various of newspapers photos showing bodies in prison cells where police officers were killed
2. Headline reading: (Spanish) "Four policemen are executed in jail"
3. Newspaper showing mugshots of four...
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SYND 17 3 80 SHOT YOUTH BOMB BLAST AND REFUGEES
To escape repression in the countryside, peasants are streaming into the capital city of San Salvador from their farms. But the capital is not safe either. A newspaper suffered a bomb attack this week, presumably because of its left-wing...
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SYND 3 4 80 VIOLENCE AT A FUNERAL IN SAN SALVADOR
The funeral in San Salvador of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero becomes a place of further violence in the troubled city of San Salvador with fire bombs and shootings.
1. ls high angle and pan cathedral and vast crowd in plaza
2. ws high...
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SYND 25 3 80 UNBURIED LEFTISTS LIE IN STATE IN CATHEDRAL
At San Salvador Cathedral, the dead victims of government troops are laid in state, and visited by Leftists, who protest as they mark their grief.
1. ws exterior cathedral
2. vs people in cathedral, looking at coffins and bodies
3....
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SYND 16 7 80 PEASANTS TAKE OVER COSTA RICAN EMBASSY
Peasants take over Costa Rican Embassy in San Salvador
1. ms body of dead guard on ground, belongings of peasants thrown in
2. ms peasants loading belongings through gates
3. ms gunmen carrying away guards body
4. ms exterior of embassy...
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UPI 25 3 80 BODIES OF LEFT WING SUPPORTERS STILL AT CATHEDRAL
Some bodies of the 19 left wing supporters who were murdered in a cathedral, are laid out, awaiting burial
1. ls press and reporters in road next to body
2. various shots, bodies lying on ground
3. ls ambulances arrive
4. pan across...