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Armando Lenin Salgado Salgado (12 March 1938 – 14 April 2018) was a Mexican photographer and photojournalist who documented the social movements of the twentieth century in Mexico. He is the author of the most widespread images of the Corpus Christi massacre and the guerrillero Genaro Vázquez.

Began in the 60s photographing, in the Colombian jungle, the group Ejército de Liberación Nacional. On June 10, 1971 he photographed the Corpus Christi massacre, also called Halconazo, which led him being imprisoned and tortured for 10 days. His images were on the cover of Time magazine, Life, He died on 14 April 2018, of pancreatic cancer.

References

1. "Consume el cáncer al legendario fotógrafo guerrerense Armando Lenin Salgado - El Sur Acapulco suracapulco I Noticias Acapulco Guerrero".
2. ARMANDO SALGADO (in Spanish)
3. Armando Lenin Salgado, los "ojos" del 10 de junio Archived 2011-09-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
4. Fallece Armando Lenin Salgado, fotógrafo del ‘halconazo’ de 1971 (in Spanish)

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