As the Central American country is sued by Pacific Rim, its people are developing their own campaigns against mining
The wall opposite the mayor's office in Nueva Trinidad, a small village in the hills of Chalatenango, northern El Salvador, bears a mural of a shirtless peasant farmer, crucified on a giant dollar sign. "No somos pobres; nos han empobrecido", runs the plaintive caption: "We are not poor; they made us poor".
A second mural shows a river slicing the earth into two distinct visions of the future: on one side, the riverbank has degenerated into an apocalyptic, industrial wasteland; on the other, the land is lush and verdant with flowers in bloom.
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