{"id":7185,"date":"2026-04-21T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:23:31","slug":"book-rio-sumpul-massacre-memorial-trails-and-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/2026\/04\/21\/book-rio-sumpul-massacre-memorial-trails-and-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00edo Sumpul Massacre Memorial – Trails and Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authors: Lourdes Calero, Harold Fallon<\/a>, Amanda Grzyb, Evelia Macal, Thomas Montulet.<\/p>\n

This book chronicles the collaborative design and realization of the R\u00edo Sumpul Massacre Memorial in Las Aradas, El Salvador. On May 14, 1980, three hundred people were brutally murdered by paramilitary units on the R\u00edo Sumpul, a river on the country\u2019s border with Honduras. Trails and Voices is a memorial and a homage to the resilience of those who were impacted by the massacre, a momentous event in the early years of the civil war. The book allows us to hear the voices of survivors, members of the local community, people involved, architects, artists, and scholars. Following multiple trails, it explores how Asociaci\u00f3n Sumpul worked as part of an international team to make the memorial a reality – within the framework established by the international initiative Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador.<\/p>\n