Mauricio Funes

President Barack Obama told Salvadorans he remains committed to reforming US immigration policies and pledged to help keep the tiny Central American country on a path of development.Immigration, security and economic growth figured as the central issues of Obama's visit and talks ...

), television journalist who served as president of El Salvador (2009- ).. The violent death of Funes's older brother, who was killed by police during a student protest in August 1980, induced Funes to leave the university before completing his degree. In ...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Leftist Mauricio Funes was sworn in as El Salvador's president on Monday, vowing a break with a past scarred by civil war as he brought a party founded by Marxist guerrillas to power for the first time.Funes, a ...

A CONSERVATIVE candidate has conceded defeat in El Salvador's presidential vote to the party of former guerrillas, who have gained power for the first time since a civil war ended 17 years ago. Rodrigo Avila of the conservative Arena party says he ...

El Salvador vote could bring former rebels to power for first time since civil warEl Salvador's former guerrillas, behind the bespectacled, moderate face of a former TV journalist, could take power for the first time since the nation's civil war in elections ...

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