Tag: Salvador Sanchez Ceren

• Monday, October 15th 2018 - 04:14 UTC

  The Catholic Church has seven new saints

  

  A former pontiff, a Spanish-born nun who is said to have performed her first miracle in Argentina and a slain Salvadorean Bishop were among the seven new saints canonised Sunday by Pope Francis at the Vatican.

• Monday, June 2nd 2014 - 07:55 UTC

  Former guerrilla commander sworn in as El Salvador president

  

  Former guerrilla commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren on Sunday was sworn in as president of El Salvador for the second consecutive five-year mandate of the FMLN, an ex-guerrilla movement and current political party.

• Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 22:44 UTC

  El Salvador Electoral tribunal declares incumbent candidate the winner

  

  A former Marxist guerrilla leader won El Salvador's presidential election by a margin of less than one quarter of one percentage point, according to final results released on Thursday, but the right-wing rival continued to press to have the vote annulled.