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February 3, 2014

Ex-Rebel Leads 1st Round of El Salvador Presidential Vote 
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A former rebel commander in El Salvador has finished first in the
country's presidential election, setting up a run-off vote next month.
Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the FMLN took 48.9 percent of the vote, just
shy of the 50 percent needed to avoid a second round. He will square off
against right-wing candidate Norman Quijano, who placed second with just
under 39 percent. Before Sunday's vote, Sánchez Cerén attended mass at
the chapel where Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated by U.S.-backed
death squads in 1980.

 

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