Caribbean & Central America - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)

After months of speculation the ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) named Vice-President Salvador Sánchez Céren as its presidential candidate for 2014. The announcement confirms that the party’s brief experiment with moderate candidates, which saw Mauricio Funes come to power in 2009, is over. This puts the main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) in the driving seat before it even selects a candidate, a process which is now well underway, with the moderate and popular mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano, the clear favourite to be tapped by the party’s leadership directorate (Coena).

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