- As El Salvador prepares to hold congressional and local elections tomorrow, the leftwing National Liberation Front -- now a political party after fighting a guerrilla war for five years -- is poised to win a sizeable chunk of the vote from the ruling ARENA Party. Reporter Mike Lanchin profiles one of the more interesting candidates for Congress, a charismatic former guerrilla leader named Maria Navarette (nava-RET-tay).
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