¡Se Hice Puro!

The FMLN won the presidential election in El Savlador on Sunday. This was a historic event, the first time the left has won since the Civil War ended. The main political parties, ARENA and the FMLN, have roots in the war. The right wing military is notorious for the death squads and the guerrillas resistance fighters, are the parents of ARENA and FMLN.

This is an historic event; not only for the 75,000 people that were murdered, but because the US could not scare the Salvadorean people. True to form, the United States became involved in another democratic, international election. The US threatened remittances and immigrants living in the United States if the FMLN won. Groups such as CISPES called for public American neutrality.

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We celebrate this clean victory! ¡Se Hice Puro!