PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN EL SALVADOR

That this House congratulates television journalist Mauricio Funes on winning the Presidential Election in El Salvador as candidate for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a party of left-wing former guerrillas, whose victory brought to an end the conservative rule of the right-wing Arena regime, which had held power for two decades, following a civil war that had led to the deaths of some 75,000 El Salvadorians; and looks forward to President Funes reforming the economy and civil society in El Salvador, and to his putting in place a people's government to implement progressive social and economic policies such as those already being enjoyed under the progressive people's leadership of Presidents Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia.