In 2002, as the price of gold was soaring and the government of El Salvador was incentivizing foreign investors, a group described as “white men in suits” entered the country in search of gold. They represented a small Canadian-based mining corporation called Pacific Rim, known as Pac Rim. They zeroed in on an area in More

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