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Farabundo Presente

Melanie Cervantes
20" x 26"
1- Color, Handprinted, Matter Paper, Printed in Oakland CA 2009

This print is created to celebrate the victory that many Salvadorenos has been wishing for..

"For the first time, the left  govern El Salvador. In the March 15, 2009 presidential elections, Mauricio Funes of the former guerrilla movement the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) defeated former police director Rodrigo Ávila of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) by a thin margin of less than three percentage points.

This victory brings an end to 20 years of ARENA rule, and almost two centuries of right-wing domination of El Salvador. Popular movements entered the elections with high expectations, and ecstatically greeted Funes’ victory with fireworks and dancing in the streets late into the night.

After decades of electoral losses and neoliberal governments, leftist organizations had lost some of the initiative that brought them to the verge in the 1980s of bringing down the conservative regime that ruled this small Central American country."

$20

Tags: solidarity , xicana , "melanie cervantes" , fmln , "el salvador"

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