Learn About El Salvador

You can help our cause by educating yourself and others about El Salvador's history and the Civil War (1980-1992), and about the town of San Jose Villanueva.

(Please note that these movies show some difficult scenes and may not be appropriate for children).

• Romero - Starring Raul Julia, this movie is accurate according to those who lived through the war.
• Innocent Voices - This movie has received many awards from film festivals; this shows the war as seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy and his family.
• Salvador - This movie, directed by Oliver Stone, has been nominated for two Oscars.

• Bitter Grounds, by Sandra Benitez
• Witness to War, by Charles Clement (out of print)
• El Salvador: The People and Culture (lands, Peoples, and Cultures), by Greg Nichols
• The History of El Salvador (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations), by Christopher M. White
• From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women's Stories, by Michael Gorkin, Marta Pineda, and Gloria Leal
• El Salvador (Enchantment of the World). Second Series, by Marion Morrison
• Revolution in El Salvador: From Civil Strife to Civil Peace, Second Edition, by Tommie Sue Montgomery
• El Salvador in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series), by Francesca Davis DiPiazza
• COAR Children's Village - History of the Community of Oscar Arnulfo Romero - COAR - in El Salvador 1980-2005, by Therese Osborne

• Visit the Wikipedia website
• Visit the San José Villanueva Facebook page
• Visit the Municipality of San José Villanueva Facebook page