This time it was Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN). The former leftist rebels agreed to a peace accord right after the Ronald Reagan Regime tried to wipe them out. They agreed to form a political party and abandon the armed struggle. As with Nicaragua, Venezueala and Bolivia, left-wing candidates are winning what they couldn’t win on the battle field. It seems to be a trend in Latin America right now.
It’s hard to say how long this trend will last, but for the short run it is a vidication of the Latin left over the US right-wing, which has tried to isolate leftist leaning groups and lable them either “communists” or “narco-terrorists.”
From:
March 16
Left-winger wins El Salvador poll
Leftist Mauricio Funes of El Salvador's former Marxist rebel FMLN party has won the country's presidential election.
He defeated his conservative rival, the Arena party's Rodrigo Avila, who has admitted defeat.
Arena had won every presidential election since the end of El Salvador's civil war 18 years ago.
Addressing jubilant supporters, Mr Funes said it was the happiest day of his life and the beginning of a new chapter of peace for the country.
Branded by his opponents as a puppet of Venezuala's President Hugo Chavez, Mr Funes vowed to respect all Salvadorian democratic institutions.
The FMLN won 51.3% of the vote against Arena's 48.7%, Reuters news agency reported.
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