RSSFarabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) candidate Mauricio Funes emerged as the narrow victor in El Salvador’s March 15 presidential election, with 51 percent of the vote. Funes overcame the fiercely negative and patently unfair campaign waged by the opposition National Republican Allian[...]
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Leftist claims El Salvador presidency
March 16, 2009 By Arthur Brice CNN Mauricio Funes, a member of a political party that waged guerrilla war against the government 17 years ago, claimed the presidency of El Salvador on Sunday night. “This is the happiest night of my life,” Funes told a jubilant crowd at his election headq[...]
El Salvador prepares for crucial election
March 13, 2009 By Arthur Brice CNN Voters in El Salvador will line up at a crossroads of history Sunday, deciding whether to give the presidency to a political party that 17 years ago was waging guerrilla war on the government. Although polls indicate that the race has tightened considerably, most a[...]
A Warning for President Obama: Speak out on El Salvador or Jeopardize Prospects to Revive Latin American Relations
- Salvadoran election campaign hijacked by right-wing scare tactics, threatening U.S. hostility - Republican congressmen call for sanctions in the event of an FMLN victory - COHA, scholars and representatives urge Obama and Clinton to speak out and promise a neutral stance from Washington As the El [...]
Former Newsman Fronting El Salvador’s Leftist Group is Presidential Hopeful
March 11, 2009 FOXNews.com A frontrunner in El Salvador’s upcoming presidential election has two Web sites, a Facebook page and the designation of “hottie,” courtesy of one political analyst. He has taken a page out of Barack Obama’s playbook and tried to draw a comparison between himself an[...]
Letter to Secretary of State Clinton from 140 Scholars: Let a Free and Fair Vote Determine who will be El Salvador’s Next President
- One hundred forty specialists on Latin America call upon Washington’s chief diplomat to carefully monitor the “dirty campaign” being waged by rightwing groups in El Salvador - Letter calls upon U.S. officials to emphatically state that the U.S. is prepared to work with any politi[...]
COHA Responds to its Readership: An Open Letter on El Salvador
COHA received the following response to its January 27 article “Mixed Results In Salvadoran Elections” from Carlos Colorado. Below, the COHA staff responds in an open letter: Kira Vinke’s analysis, “Mixed Results In Salvadoran Elections” was hopelessly bereft of substan[...]
January 27th, 2009 - 11:27 am § in El Salvador, Front Page
Mixed Results In Salvadoran Elections
- U.S. Embassy’s historically interventionist role - Ambassador Rose Likins, among others, had led campaign to block FMLN from winning the ballot - Tony Saca and his predecessors slavishly aspire to be Washington’s best friend in Latin America A little over a week after polls closed in E[...]
December 18th, 2008 - 3:51 pm § in El Salvador
The Readership Responds to the Open Letter by U.S. Academics on Salvadoran Ballot
In the service of scholarly debate, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs is continuing the analysis of U.S. policies associated with the upcoming presidential election in El Salvador. This includes running here some of the issues raised, positive as well as negative, by the original scholars’ letter[...]
December 10th, 2008 - 9:41 am § in El Salvador, Press Releases
OPEN LETTER FROM U.S. ACADEMICS ON SALVADORAN ELECTIONS
COHA has been asked to help with the distribution of the following letter concerned with U.S.-Salvadoran relations. Out of a sense of public service, and its concerns for the issues addressed by the letter, which was signed by scores of distinguished scholars, we are pleased to make it available to[...]