(Español abajo) Check out this excerpt from El Sombrero Azul, the annual newsletter of the Binghamton-El Charcón Sister City Project. To read the entire newsletter, click here. Photo: Members of the Junta Directiva who replied to our questions: From left to right, Celia Quintanilla Valencia (Treasurer), María Concepción Barrera, and Claudia Guardado (President). The Faces […]
(Español Abajo) This fall, Sister Cities organized the 2024 Speaking Tour across the Midwest from October 6th to 27th. The topic for the 2024 tour was “Our Shared Struggle: Shaping a more just future through grassroots solidarity organizing in El Salvador and the US.” During our tour, we visited 7 cities: Austin TX, Lawrence KS, […]
(Español abajo) On November 5th, former President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential election. With 50.2% of the popular vote compared to Harris’ 48.2%, Trump’s win was a decisive comeback from his loss in 2020 (Associated Press). We know that a second Trump presidency will be felt across the country, […]
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 […]
(Español abajo) Photo above: a popular education workshop with USESSC in 2018. US-El Salvador Sister Cities is pleased to announce our 2024 Speaking Tour, which will take place in the midwest from October 6-27. The tour will be accompanied by Lorena Araujo, the current president of the Association for Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), […]
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 Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Rio Lempa (CEL) and Ministry of Public Works continue to fail community members with lack of safety oversight. On June 14th, heavy rains hit El Salvador, prompting a 15 day state of emergency. Although the worst of the crisis has passed, the National Civil Protection System has […]
Español abajo. In early June, USESSC coordinated a successful delegation with sisterings from Madison-Arcatao and Philadelphia-Las Anonas. 9 participants from Madison and Philadelphia traveled to El Salvador, becoming the first delegation to include two sister city pairings and travel to both sister communities. “Having a delegation that included two sistering relationships and communities was powerful. […]
(Español abajo) Maren is USESSC’s US Grassroots Organizer. About Maren Maren began working with Sister Cities in June, 2024. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in International and Global Studies from Middlebury College in Vermont, as well as a Master’s Degree in Migration Studies from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. In the US, she has […]