Connecting communities in
El Salvador & the U.S.

US-El Salvador Sister Cities is a grassroots network of people who believe in working together for social justice. We started with committees in dozens of cities throughout the United States, each of which was directly partnered with a community in El Salvador.

Our Latest Posts

Mozote files – Defense Minister says they will not comply with a judicial order that, according to him, has no legal basis

FACTUM reports: The Minister of National Defense, Francis Merino Monroy, asked the magistrates of the [...]

18
Sep
Presidency’s legal advisor Conan Castro dismisses letter written by members of U.S. Congress

Estamos hablando de diez u once que fueron los que firmaron de trescientos ochenta y [...]

11
Sep
Orlando Montano convicted

(EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) The National Court in Spain has sentenced former Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano [...]

11
Sep
U.S. Representatives send letter to Bukele about the attacks to the press / Representantes de los Estados Unidos envían carta a Bukele por los ataques a la prensa

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Democratic members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of [...]

10
Sep
Bukele seeking to change the constitution of El Salvador

EFE and La Prensa Grafica report that president Nayib Bukele has designated Vice-president Félix Ulloa [...]

09
Sep
Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic on Salvadoran Organized Women

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   National members of U.S-El Salvador Sister Cities Network have been part [...]

08
Sep
Zoom update – September 16

The U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities Network (USESSC) is happy to organize a zoom update alongside [...]

04
Sep
Open Letter to the Salvadoran Government asking them to sign the Escazu agreement

The Escazú Agreement, a watershed 2018 United Nations environmental treaty for Latin America and the [...]

02
Sep
Will the military files be opened? Latest developments on “El Mozote” trial

EL FARO reports:   The presidency of Nayib Bukele told Judge Jorge Guzmán, who reopened [...]

01
Sep
USESSC Accountability / Nuestra rendición de cuentas

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Thanks to the donations made to our fundraising due to the [...]

25
Aug
Child pregnancy numbers in the first semester of 2020

Defenders of women’s rights warned that in El Salvador there is a considerable increase in [...]

21
Aug
U.N. Special Rapporteur: “It is unacceptable for the President to threaten magistrates”

(EN ESPAÑOL AQUI)   The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and [...]

12
Aug

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