Five environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador faced life imprisonment over an alleged civil-war-era crime — until today. The five were just acquitted. Host Carol Hills speaks with Jorge Cuellar, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College, about the case itself, as well as this new development.
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