{"id":6334,"date":"2009-03-13T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2009-03-13T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:23:55","slug":"el-salvador-gears-up-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/03\/13\/el-salvador-gears-up-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador Gears Up for Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest031309\/2009_03_13_elsalvador.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest031309\/2009_03_13_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2009-03\/45546026.jpg\" alt=\"El Salvador\" \/>El Salvador is gearing up for a Presidential election this Sunday that could catapult a leader of the leftist FMLN party into power for the first time. Mauricio Funes, a former correspondent for CNN en Espa\u00f1ol, is a relatively new recruit of the FMLN and leads the conservative ARENA party&#8217;s candidate, Rodrigo Avila, in polls. Plagued by severe poverty and soaring crime rates, Salvadorans are being asked to choose between an Obama-style campaign of &#8220;change&#8221; by Funes, and defending &#8220;the values of God, country and freedom&#8221; by Avila. Only six weeks ago, El Salvador&#8217;s parliamentary elections were swept by FMLN candidates. FMLN guerilla fighters fought a protracted battle against a US-backed dictator-ship in the 1980s and have come a long way to the ballot box. The ARENA party, which has won the presidency four times in a row, has warned Salvadorans of the specter of Cuba and Venezuela-styled leadership if FMLN candidate Funes wins. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Isaura Rivera-Anagnos, FMLN \u2013 Comisi\u00f3n de la Mujer, Joaquin Chavez, Fellow at the Department of History at New York University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program El Salvador is gearing up for a Presidential election this Sunday that could catapult a leader of the leftist FMLN party into power for the first time. Mauricio Funes, a former correspondent for CNN en Espa\u00f1ol, is a relatively new recruit of the FMLN and leads the conservative ARENA party&#8217;s candidate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}