El Salvador: SIDEBAR: El Salvador joins Latin America's swing to the left , Earth Times (2009)
The triumph of leftist candidate Mauricio Funes in El Salvador's presidential election continued Latin America's swing to the left. Funes, of the former guerrilla group turned political party FMLN, got 51 per cent of the vote in Sunday's election, ending 20 years of rule by the right-wing party ARENA, according to preliminary official results with 90 per cent of the ballots counted.
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