All Entries Tagged With: "El Salvador"
Split With the Past
With Panama’s Ricardo Martinelli and El Salvador’s Mauricio Funes both looking to be paradigms for successful government in the Americas, will ideology take a backseat to ruling from the center?
Mauricio Funes: A Leftist in Prime Time
Funes, a political neophyte, is the quintessential non-politician. He is sometimes at odds with the more radical elements in the FMLN, the party of former leftist guerrillas, who as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front waged a 10-year war against the U.S.-backed government until a 1992 peace treaty. But his candidacy finally brought to power the FMLN. The Funes victory ended the lock on national power that the right-wing ARENA party had held for 20 years.
Emerging Leaders
In the region of new democracies, is this the shape of things to come?
Roberto Murray Meza – Entrepreneur Enticed by Politics
As the Nationalist Republican Alliance struggles to recover from its historic loss in the March presidential race, its members are seeking a leader who can breathe new life into the party known as ARENA.
One possibility is charismatic beer magnate and philanthropist Roberto “Bobby” Murray Meza. The 62-year-old Murray is a long-time ARENA stalwart but a [...]
