This rendezvous with history, this return to that site, a fundamental stronghold of the Salvadoran guerrilla group, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), confirms that this was a “strategic territory and a site of resistance” for the Salvadoran people.

Places such as Perquin, where the commemoration will be held this Saturday, a center of operations and historical memory, are now the heart of the Peace Route, a symbol of struggle and reconciliation.

The Chapultepec Peace Accords are not forgotten for being signed in 1992 at the historic Chapultepec Castle in Mexico, and remain a point of contention between those who seek to forget and those who strive to erase their significance from the popular imagination and from history.

Few forget that the Truth Commission’s report “From Madness to Hope: The Twelve-Year War in El Salvador” was published on March 15, 1993.

This report documented the events that Salvadorans faced in a power struggle, where the United States provided money and weapons for the massacres.

The death toll and disappearances reached more than 75,000, and a silent witness is the Monument to Memory and Truth, a wall bearing about 30,000 names of war victims, located in Cuscatlan Park in San Salvador.

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