SAN SALVADOR—Red banners, olive fatigues and Soviet-style marching music filled Parque Cuscatlán on Oct. 12, as hundreds of loyal members of El Salvador’s Faribundo Marti National Liberation (FMLN) party celebrated in the nation’s capital. They were there on what would have been the 78th birthday of Jorge Schafik Handal, one of their movement’s founding fathers and the 2004 FMLN presidential candidate,… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesNice point on El Salvador.
This country needs a lot a lot to reconstruct and restore. Ban corruption, full respect of civil rights and social justice is fundamental to create a new society and be a model of real democracy.Good luck for Funes.
Posted by jorge montes on Dec 14, 2008 at 2:08 AM The times are changing and Jacob Wheeler has depicted so well the hope of the people of El Salvador to end the anguish caused by the privatizations and neoliberalism. I hope the salvadorians will no longer swallow the propaganda of fear linking the communism with the desire to break the status quo of social injustice.
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