(Español abajo) On January 24, US-El Salvador Sister Cities hosted our January Member Meeting. Over 40 people attended this event, titled Democracy at Risk: Salvadoran Elections 32 Years After the Peace Accords. Please email sistercities@gmail.com if you would like to watch the event recording. The event included a conversation with Lorena Araujo, the current president of […]
The US-El Salvador Sister Cities Network is continuing the search for a new co-coordinator to work in our El Salvador office. This position will be based in San Salvador, to start in ealy spring 2024. Please find the full job description below, and share it with anyone you think may be interested. We are accepting […]
(español abajo) Today and tomorrow mark 42 years since the atrocities of El Mozote. On December 11 and 12, 1981, over 800 men, women, and children–all civilians–were killed by the Salvadoran Army in what is now considered to be one of the worst massacres of the twentieth century in Latin America. The battalion that was […]
(Español abajo) Greetings Friends of Sister Cities, US-El Salvador Sister Cities wishes you a peaceful holiday season. During the Salvadoran civil war, Salvadoran organizers from our primary partner CRIPDES recognized the need for grassroots international solidarity to stop the Salvadoran and US governments’ violence. It was their organizing that led to the formation of US-El […]
San Salvador, November 28, 2023. Social organizations in El Salvador face some of the harshest realities since the signing of the Peace Accords: elimination of spaces for citizen participation, obstacles to their legalization, harassment in social networks, censorship, blockades, police harassment and threats of closure are some of the patterns identified.
(ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Last weekend, a gathering was held with young people from different communities of Suchitoto. It was organized and promoted by the youth secretariat of PROGRESO. A total of 34 young people who do not yet belong to any area of organizational work and others who are already part of Youth Committees, women’s committees, […]
(ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Agroecological practices offer a useful tool in the effort to combat climate change and assure food security. CRIPDES, The Association for Development in El Salvador, secured funding from the United Nations through the GEF Small Grants Programme and selected the community of Las Anonas de Santa Cruz as a beneficiary of a $25,000 […]
(Español abajo) In the 1980’s, US-El Salvador Sister Cities members organized in support of the right of Salvadorans to safely return to their places of origin in the midst of the US-backed Salvadoran Army’s vicious attacks on civilians and rebel combatants that resulted in multiple massacres of Salvadoran civilians. These atrocities, carried out with US […]
(español abajo) We invite you to read an op-ed in the Progressive Magazine written by long-time Sister Cities’ organizer Marc Rosenthal. The article is titled “Biden’s Nomination of Elliott Abrams Ignores a Violent Past: Diplomacy should be guided by individuals who prioritize human rights, not by a political operative who enabled a massacre in El […]
(Español abajo) Written by the National Gathering Planning Team: Emma Folkerts, Sheila Brady, Olivia Petipas, Jon Falk, Stephanie Koontz, Jacey Anderson, and Zulma Tobar The 2023 National Gathering was held via Zoom on October 7 and 8. Over 50 people attended and more than 10 people helped facilitate and take notes. If you were able […]