Caribbean & Central America - March 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Former president Elías Antonio (Tony) Saca (2004-2009) has officially launched his presidential campaign for March 2014. Saca was elected on the ticket of the right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) in 2004 but now is seeking to break the political duopoly which has maintained a stranglehold on El Salvador’s political system since the end of the 1980-1992 civil war at the head of a right-of-centre coalition. Coming to power as the chosen candidate for Arena, with its powerful electoral machinery and broad support base, is one thing; defeating Arena and the ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional (FMLN), who between the two of them tend to squeeze out those who pursue a third way, is quite another.

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