Weekly Report - 27 March 2014 (WR-14-12)

El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes marked the 34th anniversary of the assassination of the archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on 24 March by unveiling a plaque naming the capital’s international airport after the iconic champion of the poor. Funes sought to draw parallels between Romero’s “challenge to the established powers, uncovering the truth of authoritarianism, corruption and exclusion” and his government, which he said has had to face “the same forces, the same intolerant spirit”. His speech had added resonance this year given the closely contested elections on 9 March. The right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) tabled numerous legal challenges to the victory of Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), none of which have prospered, and it reluctantly accepted defeat on 26 March.

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