Mayor Of DC Begins Visit To El Salvador

Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, and Ernesto Muyshomdt, mayor of San Salvador, talk during a meeting two weeks ago in the building of the City Hall of DC, where the date was agreed to declare the Twinning between both cities, which will be held this Monday the 13th in the Salvadoran capital. Photo: Communications DC Mayor’s Office Víctor Caycho Washinton Hispanic In a trip described as “historic”, the mayor of Washington DC traveled the weekend to San Salvador, to preside on Monday 13 a public ceremony where the Twinning between the two cities, which are the capitals of their respective countries.

The act has generated enormous expectations and will be held on Monday in a public square in the Historic Center of San Salvador. According to officials of the capital city, Bowser heads an edil and commercial mission made up of some 50 people, several of them leaders and Salvadoran businessmen living in Washington DC. The initiative to declare “sister cities” to San Salvador and DC seeks to increase bilateral trade. “This proposal has been working for more than eleven years in this proposal, an idea that was born in the Salvadoran community, which is the largest of all immigrant communities in Washington,” said a spokesman. He indicated that this initiative was presented to the then mayor Adrian Fenty in 2007.

A “polling table” was summoned at the time, in charge of a group of activists. Then the same requirement was raised to Mayor Vincent Gray. Both efforts failed. “Now Mayor Muriel Bowser has made it a reality,” the source added. The proposal was finalized two weeks ago, with a meeting between Mayor Muriel Bowser and the mayor of San Salvador, Ernesto Muyshomdt, which took place in the building of the DC Mayor’s Office on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bowser agreed to the invitation made by Muyshomdt and crystallized the idea of ​​the trip to the Salvadoran capital. In addition, the drafts were prepared so that on Monday the 13th, both cities will be declared “sisters”. In addition to senior local government officials, several members of the Salvadoran community travel in Washington.

Among them are Ana Reyes, from Tamarindo Restaurant; Rosibel Arbayza, owner of the Golden Sccisors in the Mount Pleasant area; Ruby Corado, executive director of Casa Ruby, which is a non-profit organization, and Lupi Quinteros, executive director of Latin American Youth Center. The mayor’s spokesperson told Washington Hispanic that this visit to San Salvador highlights the commitment of Mayor Muriel Bowser with the Hispanic community. “She decided to travel to San Salvador to emphasize that in Washington DC all its residents are valued,” he said. Immediate actions He also announced that the most momentous moment will be given on Monday with the signing of the twinning agreement. Another agreement will be signed between the Technological Institute of the American Center (ITCA) in San Salvador and the Carlos Rosario International School in Washington. Both centers will formalize the exchange of students from both cities, as a first step.

Also, Rudy Mounib Seibaly, of the company MCN Build, will announce the construction of a library as a gift from the mayor’s office of DC to the capital of El Salvador. Meanwhile, the Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce of DC directed by Nicole Quiroga is in charge of the meeting at the level of the business area. For this they have the support of the government of El Salvador, especially the Foreign Ministry. “He has put all the resources so that the members of the commission know how to invest or export products to or from El Salvador.

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• Mayor Muriel Bowser will also travel to the city of Intipucá, in El Salvador. • The transcendent aspect of this visit is that the first people who came to Washington DC in the late 1960s come from that region, located east of San Salvador. • There, Bowser will be received by the mayor of Intipucá, Elenilson Leonzo Gallo.