El Salvador to turn left?

[Revy]

El Salvador will hold its presidential elections on March 15, 2009, and it's mainly Rodrigo Avila , the candidate of ARENA ( a conservative party), versus Mauricio Funes, the candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) (a left-wing socialist party). Funes is leading in polls.

El Salvador actually has troops in Iraq, 200 currently. And they have the U.S. dollar as their de facto currency.

What are your thoughts on the FMLN? Is it really socialist? Or do you think they are social democratic instead?

[Kukulofori]

2005 - FDR split

In 2004 and 2005, the FMLN experienced another split. Five FMLN Legislative Assembly members, along with a number of their supporters, left the FMLN to form a new political party, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (in Spanish: Frente Democratico Revolucionario). Some of the principal leaders of this split were Ileana Rogel and Francisco Jovel. The people who left to form the FDR chose this name because it has a legacy in the Salvadoran revolutionary movement; an organization by the same name was formed under the leadership of the FMLN during the civil war to bring together parties and individuals doing legal political work during the civil war. As opposed to previous splits from the FMLN which openly proclaimed that they were ideologically 'center' or 'center-left' or were no longer self-declared 'revolutionaries', the people who split to form the FDR claimed to still be part of the revolutionary legacy of the FMLN. In the 2006 elections, no FDR candidates won office, except for the incumbent mayor of Nejapa, Rene Canjura. Canjura was a popular FMLN mayor of the municipality of Nejapa for three consecutive periods, and therefore under FMLN statutes, would not have been eligible to run for a fourth consecutive period. So he left the FMLN and successfully ran in 2006 as the FDR candidate. Other than him, no FDR candidates won any electoral victories in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farabundo_Martí_National_Liberation_Front#1994_-_ERP_and_RN_leaders_split

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Not sure what to make of these dudes.

[BIG BROTHER]

Well to be honest all I know from them is what I've read from wikipedia. And they are more like a coalition of different revolutionary movements that use to fight during the civil war in El Salvador.

So in overall its probably like other brad leftists organizations, with people being just center-left to more far left socialist members.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

The FMLN has degenerated into a democratic socialist outfit. It's already had control of the Legislative Assembly a few times.

[Davie zepeda]

Im from there even thought most El Salvadorians are Trotsky lovers. I do say they are for a big change. While i was there some even talked of armed conflict if they don't win this year.
I went to a meeting of one of the mayors of El Salvador he said the state will take a leading role with worker's gaining new consciousness.
The candidate running for president said he is willing to trade with china,:castro::che:Cuba,and ven so he's taking a big step towards a policy of unity.
In most parts it is up to the people on how far they want to go which well all will have to wait and see.:hammersickle: !viva la reveloution vencermous or murte!:hammersickle: Fmln.

[BIG BROTHER]

Well seing how degenerated, china is, and how its workers are exploited even worse than the one's on amerikkka, I wouldn't really consider trading with china a very leftist thing.

[Davie zepeda]

Capitalism is a tool to socialism without it socialism fails no matter what.
El Salvador has no industry nothing only American factory's now with the crisis i doubt they will stay. So who would you rather them go to help build an actually infrastructure the united states?:laugh:

[Guerrilla22]

Yeah, what NHIA said. at one time when they were actually fighting the military dictatoship as a Guerrilla group they held Marxist-Leninist ideals, those days however are long gone. It isn't uncommon for groups or individuals who once held revolutionary ideals to come back into their respective political arenas considerably less radical than before they were defeated/ousted by the US or one of its Latin American cohorts.