With the likes of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Castros in Cuba continuing to stir up things in the Western hemisphere, it's unfortunate to see that the people of El Salvador have elected their first Leftist President in 17 years but it's happened - Mauricio Funes has been elected as president of the central American country. Here's the entire brief notice over at Breitbart:
I read one other headline regarding this election where Funes was literally compared to BOTH Hugo Chavez AND Barack Obama....that's a bit spooky, now isn't it? The fact of the matter is that Funes' party is "associated" with FARC and this is not going to be a good situation, in my view. As central America turns more and more to the Left and to extremism, it's going to put extreme pressures on the U.S. defense of our southern borders and of course, with the recent claims that Chavez is willing to house Russian bombers in our hemisphere, it could contribute to even bigger issues.
And this leads to questions as to what the Obama administration did to assist the U.S.-friendly party in this election? Did they even attempt to support that side in El Salvador or are they continuing their position that the U.S. is a bad player in the world and we deserve more hostile neighbors to the south?
Leftist candidate wins El Salvador presidential race
SAN SALVADOR, March 16 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Mauricio Funes of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front secured victory in the presidential election of El Salvador on Sunday.
It is the first time since the end of a civil war in 1992 that the FMLN has won power.
Funes, a 49-year-old journalist, will formally assume the presidency on June 1 for a five-year term.
I read one other headline regarding this election where Funes was literally compared to BOTH Hugo Chavez AND Barack Obama....that's a bit spooky, now isn't it? The fact of the matter is that Funes' party is "associated" with FARC and this is not going to be a good situation, in my view. As central America turns more and more to the Left and to extremism, it's going to put extreme pressures on the U.S. defense of our southern borders and of course, with the recent claims that Chavez is willing to house Russian bombers in our hemisphere, it could contribute to even bigger issues.
And this leads to questions as to what the Obama administration did to assist the U.S.-friendly party in this election? Did they even attempt to support that side in El Salvador or are they continuing their position that the U.S. is a bad player in the world and we deserve more hostile neighbors to the south?
