‘The number of remains is difficult to determine’: civil war death site dug up for landfill in El Salvador
Diggers are working at what campaigners call a place where ‘human life, biodiversity and the environment will be sacrificed’On the morning of 16 February, dozens of police officers arrived at San Francisco Ángulo, a small rural community an hour south of El Salvador’s capital. They had come, residents were told, to escort heavy machinery belonging to Cyeemsal, a Mexican-owned company hired to begin construction of a landfill on a site the community considers sacred.Félix Laínez, 58, president of the San…
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