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The FMLN's candidate in the 21 March 2004 presidential election, Schafik Hándal, won 35.6% of the vote, but was defeated by Antonio Saca of ARENA. In the 2006 legislative election , held on 12 March 2006, the FMLN won 39.7% of the popular vote and 32 out of 84 legislative assembly seats.
On 6 September 2014, former President Francisco Flores Pérez (1999–2004) was arrested on corruption charges for allegedly misappropriating US$15 million during his presidency. [2] In December 2015, he was charged with embezzlement and illicit enrichment and was ordered to stand trial, but he died in January 2016 before his trial started. [3]
The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]
From a North Idaho district’s recent hire to the scandals at North Idaho College to a college takeover in Florida, corruption follows. | Opinion
A new ranking of the perception of corruption in 180 countries by the Transparency International anti-corruption watchdog confirms what many of us suspected: Most Latin American countries are ...
The four groups within the FMLN consisted of the Popular Liberation Forces (FPL), the National Resistance (RN), the Revolutionary Party of Central America Workers (PRTC) and the ERP. The importance of joining the FMLN was to be united with other groups that shared similar ideas of overthrowing the local government.
The White House estimates that the proposal would boost the number of borrowers getting relief to 30 million, which includes the 4 million who have already been approved for debt cancelation ...
Bukele's relationship with the FMLN began to deteriorate after he became mayor of San Salvador. [39] He clashed with other party members on Twitter, [6] and frequently resisted FMLN party leadership. [12]: 239 Bukele was a strong critic of Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the FMLN president of El Salvador who was elected in 2014. [39]