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Written by Geovani Montalvo, from UpsideDown World

Indigenous peoples in the western Salvadoran town of Izalco commemorated the 78th anniversary of  the slaughter of 30 thousand indigenous people and peasants, killed during the popular uprising of 1932.
During the dictatorship of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the dissatisfaction with the unfair distribution of wealth [...]

By Nick Everett, in San Salvador
As voting centres across El Salvador closed at 5 pm on March 15, the streets around the San Salvador headquarters of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) filled with supporters determined to defend and to celebrate the party’s first presidential election victory. Chants of “Sí, podemos!” (Yes, we [...]

In El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, of the former rebel FMLN party, has won the country’s presidential    election, ending two decades of conservative rule. Funes won 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Rodrigo Avila of the ruling right-win  ARENA party. Avila conceded defeat late Sunday.
The FMLN was a coalition of rebel guerrillas [...]

AUDIO El Salvador — Post election review from CISPES
North American Nestor, and Australian Nick Everett recall Sunday March 15 2009, the sweeping FMLN electoral victory (in spite of attempts at fraud) and their experience as international observers of the tense ballot. They assess what this significant and historic result could mean for El Salvador, [...]

Written by Telesur

Monday, 16 March 2009

The president-elect of El Salvador Mauricio Funes, together with his supporters, celebrated the victory in the elections held this Sunday in this Central American country, giving a speech in which he said that with their vote the people had signed “a new accord on peace and reconciliation.”
Shortly after the [...]

By Roberto Lovato & Josue Rojas
March 17, 2009
Funes captured 51 percent of the vote, to 49 percent cast for Rodrigo Avila of the Nationalist Republican Alliance party, which had been in power for twenty years.