tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post114191094052313713..comments2024-03-28T11:30:20.005-05:00Comments on El Salvador Perspectives: Election predictions favor FMLNTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1142037835053112382006-03-10T18:43:00.000-06:002006-03-10T18:43:00.000-06:00Anonymous reminds us of a very important point.ARE...Anonymous reminds us of a very important point.<BR/><BR/>ARENA's stronghold are the campesinos. It is mostly the urban, generally employed, masses that weigh in for the FMLN.<BR/><BR/>This fact is somewhat unsettling to me, for what it portends for the future, but it should be even more upsetting, philosophically, for those in the international left that claim to speak for our "disposessed peasants."El-Visitadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823897085882597971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1142032140289430002006-03-10T17:09:00.000-06:002006-03-10T17:09:00.000-06:00Maybe, your poll only reflects that the people edu...Maybe, your poll only reflects that the people educated that have access to internet and read english in El Salvador, preffers to FMLN, the bulk of the people that follows ARENA are poor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1141963709429059892006-03-09T22:08:00.000-06:002006-03-09T22:08:00.000-06:00Wally,It is regrettable you are facing having to r...Wally,<BR/><BR/>It is regrettable you are facing having to renew your visa in just a week, and I feel for you. I know how frustrating it can be.<BR/><BR/>GOES does this because of hard lessons learned during the 1980's: the patchouli left crowd would descend on the country on the eve of the elections and raise trouble, one way or another. Just like today's global left travels from WTO meeting to G5 summit to Bush's trips; to protest, chain themselves, parade opressed natives... you get the picture.<BR/><BR/>The good news is, in just a few days, everything should go back to normalcy for you.El-Visitadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823897085882597971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1141945020507312842006-03-09T16:57:00.000-06:002006-03-09T16:57:00.000-06:00Interesting. Similar policies were in place short...Interesting. Similar policies were in place shortly before the 2004 presidential election, creating problems for some international election observer groups. In addition, ES has a law prohibiting foreigners from participating in political activity in the country.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-1141943618149439852006-03-09T16:33:00.000-06:002006-03-09T16:33:00.000-06:00Evidently the government is concerned with the pos...Evidently the government is concerned with the possibility of extranjeros influencing the elections, as we discovered Monday when we went to Guatemala to renew our tourist visa. Most tourist visas received at the border are automatically given for 90 days, although it is the discretion of the official to give you 30 or 60. But on Monday we were given 7 at the Guatemalan border, and we were told it would go down to 5 days on Tuesday, dropping continually during the week and that this applied to all extranjeros. It´s well within their rights to do so, but I´d never encountered this before and found it interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com