{"id":2972,"date":"2009-03-06T17:52:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:34:14","slug":"leftist-on-track-for-historic-triumph-in-el-salvador-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"Leftist On Track For Historic Triumph In El Salvador : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-2975\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funes_540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funes_540.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential candidate Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) greets supporters in San Marcos, a suburb south of San Salvador, El Salvador, during a political rally on Feb. 13. Funes, who leads in opinion polls, would be the country's first leftist president. AFP\/Getty Image\" class=\"wp-image-2975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funes_540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funes_540-480x372.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Presidential candidate Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) greets supporters in San Marcos, a suburb south of San Salvador, El Salvador, during a political rally on Feb. 13. Funes, who leads in opinion polls, would be the country\\&#8217;s first leftist president. AFP\/Getty Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>All Things Considered, February 23, 2009<\/em> \u00b7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former leftist rebels in El Salvador appear poised to accomplish at the ballot box what they were unable to accomplish on the battlefield: win power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1980s, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front drew the U.S. into a bloody Cold War conflict in Central America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, as a political party known by its acronym FMLN, it has been leading in public opinion polls for presidential elections slated for March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If the party&#8217;s candidate wins, he would be the first leftist president in El Salvador&#8217;s history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=100920378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leftist On Track For Historic Triumph In El Salvador : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El \u00e9nfasis fue m\u00edo ya que ser\u00eda ch\u00e9vere que se diera este momento hist\u00f3rico en la tierra donde muchos de nosotros tenemos enterrados el ombligo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me pareci\u00f3 ch\u00e9vere que NPR hiciera este reportaje sobre El Salvador. A ver qu\u00e9 les parece a ustedes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Things Considered, February 23, 2009 \u00b7 Former leftist rebels in El Salvador appear poised to accomplish at the ballot box what they were unable to accomplish on the battlefield: win power. In the 1980s, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front drew the U.S. into a bloody Cold War conflict in Central America. Now, as a political party known by its acronym FMLN, it has been leading in public opinion polls for presidential elections slated for March. If the party&#8217;s candidate wins, he would be the first leftist president in El Salvador&#8217;s history. via Leftist On Track For Historic Triumph In El Salvador : NPR. El \u00e9nfasis fue m\u00edo ya que ser\u00eda ch\u00e9vere que se diera este momento hist\u00f3rico en la tierra donde muchos de nosotros tenemos enterrados el ombligo. Me pareci\u00f3 ch\u00e9vere que NPR hiciera este reportaje sobre El Salvador. A ver qu\u00e9 les parece a ustedes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[379,71,158,2797,139,161,210,5297],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-arena","tag-el-salvador","tag-elecciones-2009","tag-elecciones-presidenciales","tag-fmln","tag-mauricio-funes","tag-npr","tag-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74903,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/74903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}