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U.S Intervention in the 2009 Salvadoran Elections: Will history repeat itself? August, 2008 As El Salvador prepares for the March 2009 presidential elections, memories of U.S. intervention in the country have not been forgotten. From the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Reagan administration sent to the Salvadoran military to suppress the guerrilla forces […]
From the Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project, Madison, Wisconsin: This spring, in collaboration with several Madison churches, the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) presented “Stations of the Struggle,” a traveling art exhibit during the 2008 Lent season. The Stations of the Struggle exhibit honors the fact that the people of our sister city of Arcatao, […]
This May, seven delegates from San Jose Las Flores, Chalatenango, traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the two communities’ sistering relationship. One of the most moving and memorable events of the sister communities’ time together was the spontaneous decision to go down to the Charles River on May 14 to observe […]
The Missing Link in the Peace Accords and Reagan’s Legacy Staff February 14th–Last month marked the 15th anniversary of the Salvadoran Peace Accords signed in Chapultepec, Mexico, ending the armed conflict between the Salvadoran Government and the FMLN guerrillas. In the anniversary of the Peace Accords, many of the players involved in the conflict in […]
Sister Cities is proud to work directly with the Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) the largest rural organization in the country and a leader in the Salvadoran social movement. Formerly the Christian Committee of the Displaced, CRIPDES was founded in 1984 to support people displaced by the Salvadoran civil war as they […]