To: CubaNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Walter Lippmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:12:03 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [change-links] LOS ANGELES: FMLN-Los
Angeles Launches Campaign for the January and
March 2009 Elections in El Salvador
From: Israel Lemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Nov 15, 2008 4:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FMLN-Los Angeles Launches Campaign
for the January and March 2009 Elections in El Salvador
For Immediate Release
What: FMLN Launches Campaign in Los Angeles for
Presidential, Legislative, and Municipal elections in El Salvador
When: 7 PM, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008
Where:
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90010
-A Car Caravan will start earlier, at 5:00 PM,
from Park View Ave, west-end of MacArthur Park, to the site of the main event.
Who:
FMLN-Los angeles and Frente Unido
por la Nueva Esperanza en El Salvador
(FUNES-USA) Invite
Special Guests: Walter Duran, Salvadoran National
Assemblyman, Omar Corletto, Salvadoreños por el
Cambio; Nicolas Orellana, Empresarios por el
Cambio; Francisco Rivera, Salvadoran Community
Leader; Werner MarroquÃn, Member of the Central American Parliament.
Contacts: Esther Portillo (909) 645-2050 Israel Lemus (818) 216-3984
Los Angeles, CA?November 14, 2008. The FMLN-Los
Angeles will launch Saturday the official
campaign of the FMLN?s presidential, legislative
and municipal elections, hoping to win the hearts
and support of the Salvadoran people here for a
bold move toward change in Salvadoran politics.
Polls indicate that Salvadorans are increasingly
becoming optimistic and ready to vote for ?hope?
and ?change? in what could turn out to be a
historic election in January and March, 2009.
The FMLN?s popular presidential candidate,
Mauricio Funes, a prominent national journalist,
have been gaining momentum as the elections near,
maintaining a 13-15 % points advantage over the
ruling Arena party?s candidate. Polls also
indicate the same level of support for FMLN
assembly and mayoral candidates across the country.
Inspired by Barack Obama?s historic and
overwhelming victory as President-elect of the
United States in the recent US elections,
supporters of the Mauricio Funes? candidacy for
president of El Salvador have began building
great support for a change of direction in
Salvadoran politics, and they believe Funes and
the FMLN can make a historic sweep of power?Obama
Style?in that Central American country.
Salvadoran business and community leaders in Los
Angeles will be joining the FMLN for the
launching of the campaign on Saturday, Nov. 15,
at 7:00 p.m., in the main hall of the Immanuel
Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90010. Leaders believe the support of
the community in Los Angeles, which has the
largest population of Salvadorans outside the
country, can help turn the tide for a historic change in their beloved country.
It just so happens that the Obama campaign, which
had been based on ?hope? and ?change,? and
against old policies that have failed, is very
similar to the Funes-FMLN campaign that calls for
the urgent need to take a new direction in El
Salvador, a country facing a deep economic and
social crisis. The Mauricio Funes-FMLN campaign,
with its emblem, ?¡Nace la Esperanza, Viene el
Cambio!?, resonates the same tunes of hope for a
new direction and historic transformations in a
country where half of the population lives under
the poverty line. ?We expect a landslide victory
in El Salvador as we witnessed in the U.S.; the
people want change," said Esther Portillo, a
representative of the FMLN in Los Angeles.
FMLN members and sympathizers will also gather at
the west-end of MacArthur Park at 5:00 p.m. to
start a colorful car caravan from there to the
site of the main event at the church. Organizers
believe that FMLN visibility will further help to
generate enthusiasm in the community as they start campaigning.
The FMLN became an official political party in El
Salvador in 1992, after the government and the
FMLN signed the Peace Accord under the auspices
of the United Nations that same year, ending a
12-year civil war that brought so much turmoil
and over 80,000 deaths in the country. Now the
FMLN has made its case with the people of El
Salvador, and it?s poised to win the executive
office, along with an expected majority in the Salvadoran Assembly.
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WALTER LIPPMANN
Los Angeles, California
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
"Cuba - Un ParaÃso bajo el bloqueo"
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