Photo Essay: El Salvador election
Click on any image to launch the slideshow. Credit & Copyright – CISPES. Listen to Alice Ollstein’s interview with Alexis Stoumbelis, the Executive Director of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.
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- The front pages on election day in El Salvador.
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- A poll workers looks over the voter rolls.
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- Salvadorans living abroad were able to cast absentee ballots this election.
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- Women at a pro-FMLN rally.
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- Raised fists at the FMLN rally.
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- Outside the hotel where the final vote count took place.
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- CISPES observer documents a rally by ARENA supporters outside of the hotel where votes were counted.
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- Sign at pro-ARENA rally reads “Yes to the homeland. No to communism.”
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- ARENA is a far right wing party that was founded at the height of El Salvador’s civil war.
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- CISPES election observer speaking to Salvadoran media.
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- FMLN candidate, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, declares victory.
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- FMLN won the presidency by a razor thin margin – far short of a strong mandate.
