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Leftist Declares Victory in El Salvador Election
Washington Post ^ | March 16 2009 | William Booth

Posted on 03/16/2009 6:04:16 AM PDT by Alter Kaker

MIAMI, March 16 -- Mauricio Funes, a former TV newsman who was recruited to run for president, declared himself the winner of El Salvador's presidential contest Sunday night, bringing into power a leftist party built by former guerrillas and ending two decades of conservative rule.

Funes, a dynamic speaker and political outsider who compares himself to President Obama and pledged to be an agent of change in the small Central American nation, was leading the polls late Sunday night with 51.2 percent of the vote and more than 90 percent of the ballots counted. Turnout was high and election day was mostly calm.

If the lead holds, Funes and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) will take control of a nation struggling with an economic crisis and a murder rate that is among the highest in the world. The country has also suffered through 12 years of civil war, which left more than 70,000 people dead.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: centralamerican; coldwar2; communism; cuba; elsalvador; funes; hugochavez; leftists; mauriciofunes; nicaraga; nicaragua; ortega; venezuela
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To: Alter Kaker

I guess the whole damned world is going communist now that we have.


21 posted on 03/16/2009 9:25:24 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Destruction of the US Economy: Obama's Global War on Prosperity!!!)
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To: Alter Kaker

Leftist Declares Victory in U.S. Election

It's an American hemisphere thing.

22 posted on 03/16/2009 9:38:13 AM PDT by TheDon (B.O. stinks!)
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To: Alter Kaker

Memo to all Salvadorans in south Florida: Turn in your leaf blowers and go back to your new workers’ paradise.


23 posted on 03/16/2009 10:08:46 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Librerals are more dangerous to liberty than terrorists.)
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To: Jaxter

LOL!


24 posted on 03/16/2009 11:06:06 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: clintonh8r

Is there any way that a leaf blower can be used to power small craft?


25 posted on 03/16/2009 11:23:00 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Election of 2008: Given the choice between stupid and evil, the stupid chose evil.)
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To: clintonh8r

Is there any way that a leaf blower can be used to power small craft?


26 posted on 03/16/2009 11:24:33 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Election of 2008: Given the choice between stupid and evil, the stupid chose evil.)
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To: markymark212228

“Unfortunately, much of the hate towards Chgristianity was perpetrated by the Right.”

Not everything is as it seems.

IMHO


27 posted on 03/16/2009 12:24:17 PM PDT by ripley
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To: Alter Kaker

Another victory for the Kremlin and Hugo Chavez....


28 posted on 03/16/2009 12:25:48 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Here comes one million more AK-103 assault rifles from the “Former” Soviet Union to arm the El Salvadorian Army...


29 posted on 03/16/2009 12:27:37 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: lizol; Lukasz; strategofr; GSlob; spanalot; Thunder90; Tailgunner Joe; propertius; REactor; ...
Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

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30 posted on 03/16/2009 12:31:54 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Alter Kaker

Jimmy Carter will arrive soon to certify the election.


31 posted on 03/16/2009 1:46:00 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Alter Kaker

The voters who keep electing these commies will only have themselves to blame when their futures go down the economic drain The same is applicable for those which allowed the Obama leftist totalitarian crowd to seize power.


32 posted on 03/16/2009 2:32:58 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: Alter Kaker

“take control of a nation struggling with an economic crisis and a murder rate that is among the highest in the world. The country has also suffered through 12 years of civil war, which left more than 70,000 people dead.”

that’s the problem with being a conservative. It’s easy to be a liberal: just blame everyone else for the problems and redistribute the wealth. A conservative has to actually solve the problems and not everyone knows how to do that.


33 posted on 03/16/2009 3:25:29 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Mauricio Funes, a former TV newsman who was recruited to run for president, declared himself the winner of El Salvador's presidential contest Sunday night, bringing into power a leftist party built by former guerrillas and ending two decades of conservative rule.

34 posted on 03/16/2009 6:04:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
Send more friggin MaryKnoll Liberation Theology a**hats down there to help their fellow comrades.

P1ss on em all down there. I did my time in that freak show and it was a waste of time just like I and many others knew it would be.
35 posted on 03/17/2009 3:43:57 AM PDT by Tainan (Where's my FOF Indicator?)
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To: Alter Kaker; neverdem; Clemenza; nutmeg; firebrand; rmlew; Yehuda

The hemispheric socialist dictatorship is slowly drifting northward. Once immigration reform is passed we will get a leftist latin president in the US that will make Obama seem mild by comparison. Also Hispanics will nudge out blacks and whites and they don’t “share” power. They aren’t into that. The irony is that it will be a black president that will make all of that possible.


36 posted on 03/18/2009 4:46:10 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Cacique

Interesting prediction.


37 posted on 03/18/2009 5:04:13 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand

Being “Hispanic” by birth, I think I can speak with some authority on the subject.


38 posted on 03/18/2009 5:36:23 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Cacique
Also Hispanics will nudge out blacks and whites and they don’t “share” power. They aren’t into that.

Forgive me, but what the hell are you talking about?

39 posted on 03/19/2009 9:22:34 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

Demographics, plain and simple. Hispanics will own this country by the end of the century. The womb is the real weapon of mass destruction.


40 posted on 03/19/2009 2:49:14 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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