El Salvador

Concerned about an arms race in Latin America, the Carter Center's Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas urged governments in the region to pause before embarking on major arms purchases.  El Salvador's President Armando Calderon Sol was among the signatories of  a written pledge to accept a moratorium of two years on purchasing sophisticated weapons.

Waging Peace

The Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize was awarded posthumously in 1991 to six Jesuit priests executed on Nov. 16, 1989, by members of the Salvadoran military for their human rights activities. It was presented in their honor to the Human Rights Institute of the University of Central America. President Carter said at the presentation, "If we add the courage of ... the Jesuit martyrs to our present strength and influence, then a world of peace and human rights, God willing, will someday be ours."

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