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. Félix Laínez, 58, president of the San Francisco Ángulo community association, had been warned that this would happen. View image in fullscreen Félix Laínez, a community leader in San Francisco Ángulo, at the landfill site. A previous landfill site nearby is already leaching contaminants into the Salamar River, which communities downstream depend on for drinking, bathing and irrigation. The community of San Francisco Ángulo was never formally consulted, in violation of the country’s environmental law.