I'm prepared to be downvoted to oblivion over this but... I don't think it's a pile of dead bodies and here's a bunch of reasons why.
I feel I need a disclaimer like: I'm not an idiot, I have grave concerns for the inmates and CECOT and I'm certain that many have already perished due to violence between inmates or malnutrition or even violence from guards, however... I just don't think this is a pile of dead bodies.
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It's never aliens - Sensational blurry images are never what people think they are. You know, the face on mars, et cetera.
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There are so many more likely things - It could be a pile of chairs, or uniforms, or boxes, or a tarpaulin.
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They wouldn't make a pile of bodies for us to see - This thing is a cash cow for Bukele. They will be doing their best not to fuck it up. Any idiot would know that if you make a big pile of dead bodies oozing blood outside it will show up on some pesky satellite images.
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They wouldn't make a pile of bodies outside in the sun - A dead body is a logistically challenging thing to deal with. A pile of dead bodies even more so. Leaving them in the sun even just for several hours would make the whole thing so much worse. The decomp gasses in the digestive tract would make all the dead bodies shit themselves.
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Industrialised Killing Takes a Toll - Admittedly I don't know a lot about this but the nazis learned killing too many people in a repetitive waymakes a soldier "undisciplined" or unmanageable. I don't want to go into detail but they set up a system where the same soldier never saw the same person alive and then dead. If they were systematically killing inmates this wouldn't be the system.