by Susan | Aug 8, 2022 | Monuments
This park is a monument to the Chapultepec Peace Accords, which brought peace to El Salvador in 1992 after more than a decade of civil war. It was opened in 2017. A landscaped path — el camino a la reconciliación, the road to reconciliation — leads from...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2022 | Monuments
This “Christ of Peace” was designed by the sculptor Rubén Martínez in honor of the Peace Accords of Chapultepec, signed in 1992, which ended a decade-long civil war. It was unveiled in 1994 during the Central American Sports Games that took place in the city of San...
by Susan | Apr 5, 2021 | Monuments
A year after the more famous Mexican Grito de Dolores on September 16, 1810, Central America also shouted for freedom and liberty, in El Salvador. This monument marks that occasion, on November 5, 1811. Manuel Jose Arce proclaimed in a speech in what is now Libertad...
by Susan | Oct 30, 2017 | Monuments
On the campus of the University for Peace (the only university chartered by the United Nations) this monument, sculpted by Cuban artist Thelvia Marín in 1987, includes nine 12-foot columns hosting a sculpture on each side. The columns are lined up in a spiral,...
by Susan | Dec 19, 2016 | Monuments
This bronze statue, sometimes called “The Palm of Peace,” is in the courtyard of the National Palace, on the site of the signing of a peace to end Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war in 1996. This statue represents two left hands reaching up,...
