The day after the U.S. presidential election, Salvadoran presidential candidate Mauricio Funes congratulated President Obama. “These winds of change have begun to blow from the United States to refresh the global atmosphere, in need of more democracy and greater social justice,” Funes said in a statement. “The Americans have not been afraid to choose change, as they have staked out the… return to article
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