Saving El Salvador
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FMLN radicals promise a Chavez-like revolution in El Salvador
Strategically and centrally located within Central America, tiny El Salvador has been a striking economic success in recent years. Rated by the Wall Street Journal as, after Chile, having the most open and free market in Latin America, the country has enjoyed relative domestic calm for nearly 20 years. Nevertheless, it finds itself facing a relentlessly radical political opposition while being surrounded by nations that are unfriendly or failing, or both. Despite solid economic growth [five percent in 2007] and unemployment of just 5.5 percent, latest credible polls give the FMLN a seven to eight percent advantage over the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance [ARENA], which has won the last four presidential elections, causing concern for many friends of El Salvador, at home and abroad.
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