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Monday’s Monument: Monumento del Primer Grito de la Independencia de Centro América, San Salvador, El Salvador

Monday’s Monument: Monumento del Primer Grito de la Independencia de Centro América, San Salvador, El Salvador

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...
Monday’s Monument:  Monument to Disarmament, Work & Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica

Monday’s Monument: Monument to Disarmament, Work & Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica

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,...
Monday’s Monument: Monument to Peace, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Monday’s Monument: Monument to Peace, Guatemala City, Guatemala

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,...

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