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Funes's rhetoric has been accompanied by the promise of a truly balanced agenda, which includes improving relations with the U.S. and respecting a bilateral free trade agreement signed in 2006, as well as re-establishing diplomatic ties with Cuba.

::.Angus Reid Global Monitor - Polls.:: 2009

With regard to trade, Funes's criticisms of CAFTA have been subdued and generally vague, perhaps as part of his effort to court support in the business community.

CounterPunch 2009

Funes's party, the FMLN, is a former guerrilla group that fought El Salvador's US-backed military government for close to twenty years.

Democracy Now! 2009

With regard to trade, Funes's criticisms of CAFTA have been subdued and generally vague, perhaps as part of his effort to court support in the business community.

CounterPunch 2009

These include Funes's own merits, the declining appeal of ARENA's "law and order" policies, a region-wide demand for a new economic vision, and hope that the Obama White House won't repeat Bush administration interference in the Salvadoran electoral process.

CounterPunch 2009

Funes's FMLN party won El Salvador's election on Sunday, ending twenty years of governance by the US-backed, right-wing ARENA party.

Democracy Now! 2009

With regard to trade, Funes's criticisms of CAFTA have been subdued and generally vague, perhaps as part of his effort to court support in the business community.

CounterPunch 2009

Obama's own desire to break with Republican economics might make him sympathetic to Funes's vows for greater spending on social services and money to stimulate the local economy.

CounterPunch 2009

These include Funes's own merits, the declining appeal of ARENA's "law and order" policies, a region-wide demand for a new economic vision, and hope that the Obama White House won't repeat Bush administration interference in the Salvadoran electoral process.

CounterPunch 2009

Obama's own desire to break with Republican economics might make him sympathetic to Funes's vows for greater spending on social services and money to stimulate the local economy.

CounterPunch 2009