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June 2, 2009

Mauricio Funes Sworn In as New President of El Salvador
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In El Salvador, Mauricio Funes was sworn in as the country’s new
president Monday. Funes’s party, the FMLN, is a former guerrilla group
that fought El Salvador’s US-backed military government for close to
twenty years. Before the start of the inauguration ceremony, Funes
visited the shrine of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero at the Cathedral of
San Salvador. Romero, the so-called “voice of the voiceless,” was a
powerful advocate for the poor and a leading critic of the former
military government in El Salvador when he was assassinated while saying
mass on March 24, 1980.

Mauricio Funes: “In the midst of the tough economic situation in El
Salvador, the least we can do is pay homage publicly to the memory of
Monsignor Romero.”



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