Posted on 03/16/2009 7:09:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
Hemisphere: El Salvador elected a leftist president in a peaceful vote Sunday that by all accounts was fair. But the odds are now against this U.S. ally remaining democratic. That could cost the U.S. in more ways than one.
Don't take it from us, take it from them:
"This is the defeat of Ronald Reagan, nothing less," crowed Roberto Lovato, a Funes supporter identified as a "journalist" by broadcaster Amy Goodman on her "Democracy Now!" show Monday.
happen so long as the FMLN, a one-time guerrilla group that Reagan helped El Salvador's government defend itself against, is in power.
FMLN is a piece of work. It was responsible for a war in El Salvador in the 1980s that killed 75,000. Instead of being crushed as it deserved, it benefited from a 1991-1992 U.N. peace accord that let it rejoin society as a full democratic player without paying for its crimes.
Sixteen years later, with the Salvadoran political pendulum swinging for "change" as it does in all democracies, the ex-guerrillas won on an anti-big business platform and general discontent with the incumbent party's failures, particularly on crime. It's a shame it was them, and not a group of mainline liberals without their past.
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Bet they’re breaking out the champagne at the White House.
All the Hondurans I know say Salvadorans are crazy.
they are going to reap it
Same thing just happened in the United States.
Hank
Obama is thrilled about this, no doubt. There will be an especially big celebration this coming Wednesday as a result. (/sarcasm)
Jimmy Carter approves.
Why the /sarc tag? Or are you implying that nero’s Wed night parties cannot get any bigger?
Wow - I feel better already.
/sarc
If I were in his place, I wouldn’t have a bigger party than what is ordinary.
But with Obama, who knows?
That's where their allegiances lie anyway.
Anybody know how much money Chavez pumped into the FMLN? I know he backed the Sandinistas in their last election.
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