San Salvador, El Salvador  - Salvadorans are set to elect a new president Sunday in a vote that could help the strife-torn Central American country put its violent political past behind it.

For the first time in 20 years of rule by the right-wing party ARENA, the leftist FMLN is within reach of the presidency. But the election between leftist former TV journalist Mauricio Funes, 49, and right-wing former police chief Rodrigo Avila, 45, remains too close to call, according to the latest surveys of public opinion.

San Salvador  - Salvadorans are set to elect a new president Sunday, in a vote that could help the strife-torn Central American nation put its violent political past behind it.

For the first time in 20 years of right-wing rule, the leftist FMLN is within reach of the presidency against the ruling right-wing ARENA.

San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador's left-wing Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) has won the country's parliamentary elections, the nation's election officials reported Monday.

The FMLN, a former guerilla movement emerging from the country's civil war that ended in 1992, won 42 per cent of the votes, beating out the former ruling conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) of outgoing President Antonia Saca by four points.

San Salvador, El Salvador  - El Salvador's 4.2 million voters are began to voting Sunday to elect 262 city mayors and 84 seats in the national parliament in what is widely regarded as a test for th

San Salvador, El Salvador - Spain's King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero condemned Thursday a car bomb attack allegedly perpetrated by the Basque separatist group ETA that injured 17 people in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.

In their opening speeches at the Iberian American Summit being held in San Salvador, the monarch stressed his best wishes for the recovery of the injured, while Zapatero rejected the "blind, criminal, fanatical violence which ETA has once again tried to carry out."

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