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Here are some facts about Mauricio Funes, who won El Salvador's presidential election for the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
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After years as a peaceful opposition party, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, cashed in on fatigue over the ruling party's 20 years in office and fears of the world economic crisis
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El Salvador’s former rebel party won its first presidential election, ending two decades of rule for one of the staunchest U.S. allies in Central America
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Funes's opponent, former National Police chief Rodrigo Ávila, who represented the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), was trailing with 48.7 percent of the vote. Ávila conceded defeat
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Mauricio Funes, a member of a political party that waged guerrilla war against the government 17 years ago, claimed the presidency of El Salvador
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El Salvador’s F.M.L.N., the leftist party of the country’s former guerrillas, won the presidential election Sunday after a bruising election campaign
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The move points to a spreading radicalization by Mr. Chavez, as he responds to a slowing economy and the gains made by his opponents
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Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, says he has offered Moscow the use of an airfield off its Caribbean coast for Russian strategic long-range bombers
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A television journalist has won El Salvador's presidential elections, bringing a party of leftwing former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war
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An FMLN victory would mark the first time a party not dominated by the country's landed aristocracy took power in peacetime