The Sumpul Association released a statement a couple of days ago regarding the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Sumpul River massacre. You can read it in full here (in Spanish) 40 years of impunity have passed and justice has been denied to victims and survivors of the Sumpul River Massacre. We aspire to a […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Every year, our friends in Chalatenango commemorate the Sumpul River massacre, also known as “Las Aradas” (the name of the village where these people were living). This year, due to the pandemic, they invite us to commemorate its 40th anniversary virtually. They invite us to read testimonies, watch videos and learn […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday the association Martirs of Sumpul presented a book in which they have gathered testimonies of survivors of the massacre that took place on may 13th and 14th of 1980. Ana Deysi Garcia, member of the team that created the book, shared with Efe, that “this kind of work is needed […]
May 16th , 2012 On May 14th, hundreds of family members and community members from the department of Chalatenango and elsewhere around the country gathered in Las Aradas, near the shores of the Sumpul River to commemorate the massacre of over 600 civilians by the armed forces of El Salvador and Honduras on May 14th, […]
The 14th of May is a day everyone in Chalatenango looks forward to and dreads at the same time. The anticipation is for the commemoration of the anniversary the Sumpul River Massacre, in which hundreds of youth, men and women make the trek to the site of the brutal 1980 attack on civilians. The trepidation […]
By Konchok Lama For twelve students from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and the three chaperons, the Sister Cities Youth Delegation was a great opportunity to learn the simplicity, success and struggles of El Salvador in the Cambridge Sister City – San Jose Las Flores and other municipalities. We spent ten packed […]
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 […]