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w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>S 2009 <st1:PersonName w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>lections
Analysis:</span></font><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:24.0pt;
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</span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>The Road to <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Victor</st1:PersonName>y and Beyond</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Arial;color:navy'><a href="http://cispes.org/documents/March09_analysis.pdf"
title="http://cispes.org/documents/March09_analysis.pdf">Download the
report as a PDF</a></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Starting at 7am on Sunday March 15, Salvadorans headed <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>en masse</span></i> to the polls to cast their
ballots for the future president; by 9:30pm Mauricio Funes, presidential
candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN),
pronounced himself President-elect of <st1:PersonName w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>l
Salvador—the very first leftist head of state in the country’s
history. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The historical significance of this shift in power
cannot be understated considering the repressive rule that the right-wing
has exerted over the Salvadoran people since the massacre of nearly 30,000
indigenous <i><span style='font-style:italic'>campesinos</span></i> in
1932. In electing the FMLN, the political party formed in 1980 as an
alliance of popular armed forces that fought back against widespread state
repression, the Salvadoran people have created an opportunity to realize
the goals of social and economic justice. Furthermore, in rejecting the AR<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>NA party, one of <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State>’s
closest and longest-standing allies in Latin America, Salvadorans have
dealt another blow to the Washington Consensus and to the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">United</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType>’s
presumption of free reign throughout the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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title="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=541&Itemid=29">Read
the full report with photos and links on the CISPES Website</a></span></font><font
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font-family:Arial'>Please see <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://cispes.org/09electionsblog/"
title="http://cispes.org/09electionsblog/">http://cispes.org/09electionsblog/</a></span></font>for
more complete coverage from <st1:PersonName w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>lection
Day<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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