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A Contra spends a few quiet moments with his daughter. She was born in the camp.

A small unit of Contras pose in front of their jungle camp in Nicaragua near the Costa Rican border.

Little Eva Quesada is suffering from a virus, untreated because of a severe shortage of medical supplies and services at the refugee camp where she lives in Honduras near the Nicaraguan border. Her family fled Nicaragua because they feared the…

A Sandinista militiaman embraces his son after returning from pursuit of a Contra force that had destroyed his village of Las Lajas in a night raid.

In the military hospital at Jinotega, Marben Espinosa, a 17-year-old Sandinista regular wounded in a skirmish with Contras, stares balefully from his bed.

In Nicaragua, reminders of the revolution are everywhere for the young to see and digest. This group of kids climb a statue honoring workers who took up guns in the Sandinista cause.

A 13-year-old member of one of the civilian militia units takes aim with an ancient Russian rifle of World War II vintage during target practice under the amused observation of elders from his village of San Jose de Las Atas in northern Nicaragua.

A column of young women, cadets from a military academy, appear serious as they march in a May Day parade.

In Jinotega, youngsters tell each other stories while a wall painting of Augusto Cesar Sandino towers above them. Sandino was a revolutionary war hero for whom the Sandinistas are named.

A boy selling bread and watermelon was a big hit among Sandinistan troops during May Day celebrations in Managua.