Calderón Sol Is Elected President of El Salvador
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- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Government and Politics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Elections, Voting
- Curriculum: Latin American History
- Geographical Location: Central Asia, El Salvador
- Date: April 24, 1994
Article abstract: After a decade of civil war in El Salvador, the candidate of the conservative ARENA party won the presidency in an open election, ushering in an era of political reconciliation.
Return to Democracy
On April 24, 1994, Armando Calderón Sol was elected president of El Salvador in the first free elections in Salvadoran history. The elections came after twelve years of brutal civil war in which seventy-five thousand people died and another million were forced into exile.
The fact that all political groups in the country, from the far...
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