And he never came back’: In El Salvador, mothers desperately search for the disappeared

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Forensic criminalist Israel Ticas excavates a clandestine grave in El Salvador.

Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on August 4, 2021, Herbert Argueta got up from the chair where he had spent the last six hours answering calls at his computer. It was his 30-minute break from his call center shift — a job he did from home.

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Forensic teams collect bodies removed from a clandestine cemetery in the Santísima Trinidad neighborhood, in San Salvador, in August 2020.Soil samples, photos and bone remains collected by forensic criminologist Israel Ticas. Israel Ticas excavates at a clandestine cemetery in Ilopango, El Salvador.Federal agents guard a clandestine grave in the Vista al Lago development, in El Salvador.