MEXICO CITY – In El Salvador, for the first time ever in Latin America, a former political-military organization that tried to gain power through the barrel of a gun has achieved its aims through the ballot box. Although the Sandinista Front in Nicaragua did win a semi-legitimate election in 1984, it had reached power five years earlier by overthrowing the Somoza dictatorship.
墨西哥城-在萨尔瓦多，一个曾试图通过枪杆子夺取政权的前政治军事组织，终于以民主投票的方式实现了其目的。这在拉丁美洲有史以来绝无仅有。虽然尼加拉瓜的桑地诺阵线确实也在1984年赢得了半合法的选举，但其在之前的五年就已通过推翻索摩查独裁统治的方式获取了政权。而到2006年，当丹尼尔·奥尔特加最后再次当选时，1979年时的旧桑地诺阵线已面目全非了。