FMLN in El Salvador

[thescarface1989]

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FMLN Probable El Salvador Winner

San Salvador, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) The opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is the favorite in vote intentions for the coming elections in El Salvador in March 2009, revealed a survey by the Central American University (UCA).

According to the survey the Front is at 34.5 percent of positive votes against the official Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) that only obtained 27.

In the meantime, the UCA survey reported that elections for mayors and deputies to be elected in January of 2009, the FMLN obtained 31.5 percent of possible votes for local governments and 32.3 for the Legislative Assembly.

The decision to split the elections was a made by the Higher Electoral Tribunal.

The UCA dean, Jose Maria Tojeira, explained that favorable results for FMLN were unprecedented.

On the 11th of this month the Front ratified its candidates as Maruicio Funes for President and Salvador Sanchez Ceren, former FMLN guerrilla commander, as vice president to an audience of 80 thousand spectators in the capital stadium of Cuscatlan.

According to several sources the massive participation is a demonstration of popular acceptance of the formula proposed by the opposition demonstrated in a survey by the local daily, Prensa Grafica for the coming elections.


My question is are they socialists or communists, would you support them if they won the elections in El Salvador?

[thescarface1989]

Double posted, Mods please delete.

[bootleg42]

Too bad Schafik Handal died because he would have been in the frontline of this.

In case no one knows who he was, Schafik Handal was the general secretary of the Communist Party of El Salvador.

[Dominicana_1965]

They are generally reformists and seem to want to take the same steps as Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua. Funes has openly said that he does not wish to do away with the current free-market model, instead he offers State intervention (which has shown to be minimal) to bring the Salvadorian masses out of poverty.

[redarmyfaction38]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2007 03:47 pm
They are generally reformists and seem to want to take the same steps as Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua. Funes has openly said that he does not wish to do away with the current free-market model, instead he offers State intervention (which has shown to be minimal) to bring the Salvadorian masses out of poverty.
another "radical" apologist for capital then?

[Dominicana_1965]

Originally posted by redarmyfaction38+December 02, 2007 11:10 pm--> (redarmyfaction38 @ December 02, 2007 11:10 pm)
[email protected] 02, 2007 03:47 pm
They are generally reformists and seem to want to take the same steps as Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua. Funes has openly said that he does not wish to do away with the current free-market model, instead he offers State intervention (which has shown to be minimal) to bring the Salvadorian masses out of poverty.
another "radical" apologist for capital then? [/b]
Hit the nail on the head.

[leftspot]

The FMLN is the left in El Salvador, period. They have a massive base of support of hundreds of thousands. The FMLN was born in 1980 as a revolutionary political-military front which included 5 Marxist-Leninist organizations (of various shades within Marxism-Leninism), which fought a heroic armed struggle against the Salvadoran dictatorship from 1980 to 1992. Over 75,000 Salvadorans gave their lives in the fight for national liberation toward socialism.

In 1992, in a very unfavorable international situation and at least partly due to internal divisions, the FMLN signed peace accords to end the armed struggle and became a legal political party that has participated in the electoral struggle since then. They have had four or five major internal struggles and splits since 1992. The amazing thing is that the left has won those internal struggles and the FMLN continues to be a revolutionary and socialist organization that is a major force in Salvadoran society. The developments over the past two or three years or so, since the left finally decisively won the internal struggles, has been very inspiring and interesting. Of the various left-led armed struggles around the world that negotiated an end to their armed struggles in the early 1990s, the FMLN is politically in the best shape of any of them, and they continue to move politically in a more solidly revolutionary direction.

The elections in 2009 are shaping up to be a watershed event in El Salvador. In my opinion the FMLN deserves the attention and support of all anti-imperialists in the U.S.