Leftist Ex-Guerrillas Gain Ground in El Salvador

AP ^ | Mar 17, 2003 | ELOY O. AGUILAR

[Tailgunner Joe]

A party of former leftist guerrillas gained ground in this week's elections but failed to wrest control of congress from conservatives, official results released Monday show.

The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, won 31 congressional seats — four more than the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA. However, ARENA was counting on the 16 seats of its traditional conservative ally the National Conciliation Party, or PCN, for a slim majority in the 84-seat congress.

"We needed to get that legislative majority," lamented Carlos Rivas Zamora who led the FMLN in an overwhelming victory Sunday for the mayorship of the capital, San Salvador.

There were no official results yet for the country's 262 municipalities.

In the legislative assembly, the FMLN will hold the key to approval of some of the programs of President Francisco Flores that require two-thirds majority.

ARENA has held the presidency in this small Central American country since 1989, when the FMLN was in the hills fighting a government supported by the United States. The war ended with a 1992 peace treaty.

[Commander8]

Terrorism in our own hemisphere and our Government stands by and does nothing.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[taxed2death]

Why should this alarm you?

Just yesterday, our own gubmint pulled all Border patrol officers away from border areas between legal border crossings in AZ, supposedly to beef up legal border crossings.

Now there are stretches of border 100 miles wide with no one watching them. Add to this the fact that illegals (many who are NOT from Central and South America have a net tactic. They wait untill they mass 300 -400 people and just do a "bum's rush" right past border patrol agents, who are out manned by a factor of 300 - 400 to one.

I don't know any other way to describe it other than an invasion. I wasn't aware of the fact that the US was in such dire need of dish washers that we should forgo national security.

Homeland security......sure.