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Article: THE LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION (II): El Salvador the latest Latin American country to turn left
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- CCPA Monitor
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- June 1, 2009
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Joining the revolutionary wave sweeping Latin America, the people of El Salvador in March elected the first progressive government in the country's 168-year history, by voting in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), a former left-wing guerrilla army. Mauricio Funes, the FMLN President-elect, told cheering supporters: "The time has come for the excluded. The opportunity has arrived for genuine democrats, for men and women who believe in social justice and solidarity."
Funes formally took office on June 1.
The revolutionary FMLN reorganized itself as a political party after 1992 when it signed peace accords ending a 13-year civil war that pitted it against a U.S.backed ...