El Salvador authorities find body of woman who disappeared in March

Police investigators work in the crime scene to recover the body of Flor Maria Garcia Valle, who disappeared on March 2021, in Cojutepeque, El Salvador June 29, 2021. Picture taken June 29, 2021. Secretaria de Prensa de La Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's authorities on Tuesday found the body of a woman who had disappeared in March, a case that triggered a widespread social media campaign aimed at pressuring authorities to conduct an investigation.

Last month, the discovery of a mass grave at the home of a former police officer brought the issue of femicides into focus in the Central American country of 6.7 million, which recorded 70 killings of women in 2020.