{"id":898375,"date":"2026-10-29T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898375\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:14:12","slug":"the-u-s-contributes-to-protecting-el-salvadors-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898375\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Contributes to Protecting El Salvador&#8217;s Cultural Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sarah_Rogers_MUNA.jpeg\" alt=\"U.S. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers at MUNA\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>United States Provides $100,000 to Protect El Salvador\u2019s Cultural Heritage and Combat Illicit Trafficking<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers announced a $100,000 grant for the Digital Documentation of El Salvador\u2019s Movable Cultural Heritage project, which will strengthen the protection of approximately 7,000 archaeological objects and bilateral cooperation to prevent looting and combat illicit trafficking in cultural property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The launch event was attended by Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers, U.S. Embassy Charge d\u2019affaires Naomi Fellows, and El Salvador\u2019s Minister of Culture Ra\u00fal Castillo during Ms. Rogers\u2019s visit to El Salvador. The U.S. Department of State funds this initiative through the Cultural Property Agreement Implementation Grant (CPAIG) program, under the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding on Cultural Property Protection between the United States and El Salvador, reflecting more than 30 years of bilateral cooperation in preserving cultural heritage between the two countries \u2013 the oldest agreement of its kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>El Salvador\u2019s Ministry of Culture, through its National Directorate of Cultural Heritage, will implement the project over 30 months, from September 2026 to March 2029. The initiative will digitize and catalog approximately 7,000 cultural objects from the National Archaeology Collection using a secure, centralized web platform. Each object will have a standardized catalog record and high-resolution photographic documentation\u2014tools that will facilitate identification and strengthen the authorities\u2019 capacity to protect it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Undersecretary Rogers said \u201cWithout law and order you don\u2019t have a country. Under President Bukele El Salvador has undertaken a stunning trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project will also establish secure protocols for sharing information with national and international authorities, including El Salvador\u2019s Directorate General of Customs, the National Civil Police (PNC), INTERPOL, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It will also train 10 to 15 professionals in cultural heritage management and protection and develop Standard Operating Procedures to identify and intercept cultural objects at risk of illicit trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Directorate of Cultural Heritage, part of the Ministry of Culture, manages and safeguards the National Archaeology Collection and will oversee the project.\u00a0Through this grant, we reaffirm our commitment to working alongside El Salvador to protect its heritage and strengthen cooperation against the theft and illicit trafficking of cultural property in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States Provides $100,000 to Protect El Salvador\u2019s Cultural Heritage and Combat Illicit Trafficking \u00a0 U.S. Under Secretary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,376576,376577,376578,3,376579,376580,376581,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-898375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-comunicados-de-prensa","tag-milena-mayorga","tag-muna","tag-news","tag-patrimonio-cultural","tag-sarah-b-rogers","tag-subsecretaria-diplomacia-publica","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}