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 The Corpus Christi Massacre or ''El Halconazo'' (, "The Hawk Strike", so called because of the participation of a government-trained paramilitary group known as '' Los Halcones'') was a massacre of student demonstrators during the Mexican Dirty ...

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.Fallece Armando Lenin Salgado, fotógrafo del ‘halconazo’ de 1971

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1938 births 2018 deaths Mexican photographers Mexican journalists Male journalists People from Guerrero {{Mexico-bio-stub