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El Salvador reconciliation law vetoed over impunity fears

by Associated Press
| February 28, 2020 7:05 PM

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — President Nayib Bukele said Friday he has vetoed a national reconciliation bill approved earlier this week by lawmakers, arguing that it would result in impunity for crimes against humanity from El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war.

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