April 9, 2009
On March 15, Salvadorans headed en masse to the polls and by 9:30 that night Mauricio Funes, presidential candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), had been elected the very first leftist head of state in the country’s history.
February 28, 2009
In less than three weeks, 3 million to 4 million people will mobilize to vote for El Salvador’s next president – likely ushering in a new progressive chapter in the country’s long, violent history of dictatorships.