Read, Remember, Resist! Prior to traveling to El Salvador this past summer with a compañera from Philadelphia and a team from Madison, Wisconsin, I read Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. Six years had lapsed since my last delegation and I felt […]
Celebration of the International day of the victims of enforced disappearances. (Español Abajo) In the context of the commemoration of the Month of Victims of Forced Disappearance, on August 30th, we supported the Human Rights Committee Pro Historical Memory of El Salvador, which called for a press conference and an ecumenical event to be held […]
(Español abajo) Last Saturday CRIPDES celebrated its 19th annual assembly, in which they celebrated 40 years of community work. The assembly was attended by the different members, representatives of the regional offices and special guests, including US- El Salvador Sister Cities. During the assembly, the work that has been done during the last year […]
(Español Abajo) The last weekend the Monseñor Romero wall paint that was in the international airport from El Salvador, the one who has the same same name International airport Monseñor Romero from El Salvador was destroyed and now there is just a blue wall with the phrase “Bienvenidos a la tierra del surf , los […]
(Español abajo) On May 16, Sister Cities hosted its May Member Meeting, titled “Rivers of Resistance: Resource Conflict and Rural Organizing in the Americas.” It was a very special presentation by our very own staff member, Dr. Jacey Anderson, before she steps down from Sister Cities to work as a full-time historian. Anderson’s research shares […]