To learn where we are coming from and avoid mistakes of the past.
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 […]