El Salvador’s former rebels take presidency, urge unity | FSRN

Free Speech Radio News hizo un segmento sobre el triunfo del FMLN. Aura Bogado habla con Joaquín Chávez sobre los resultados. Este muchacho fue el que sacó a relucir el editorial del Diario de Hoy.

El Salvador’s Marxist guerrilla movement turned political party has claimed victory at the polls. With about 90 percent of the votes counted, preliminary official results indicate a two percent lead by the FMLN’s Mauricio Funes – who will take the presidency after a 20 year reign by the far-right ARENA party. The Untied States sought to crush the FMLN during El Salvador’s 12 year civil war, which claimed the lives of some 70,000 people. But despite his party’s revolutionary past, Funes campaigned on the need for change and reconciliation, and wants to maintain positive diplomatic relations with the U.S. Aura Bogado speaks to Joaquin Chavez, Fellow at the Department of History at NYU who is in San Salvador.

El Salvador’s former rebels take presidency, urge unity | FSRN.