El Salvador's President-elect Mauricio Funes, top center, meets with his transition team in a hotel in San Salvador, Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Funes, a former journalist, will be sworn into office June 1. AP Photo logo AP Photo 8 months ago

El Salvador's President-elect Mauricio Funes, top center, meets with his transition team in a hotel in San Salvador, Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Funes, a former journalist, will be sworn into office June 1.

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  1. The leaders of Ibero American, Andorra and Portugal poss in the official photo surrounded by media at the XIX Ibero American summit in Estoril, near to Lisbon, Portugal, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. From left to right on the first line Colombia Alvaro Uribe, Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Andorra Jaume Bartumeu, Spain King Juan Carlos, Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva, Argentina Cristina Kirchner, Portugal Jose Socrates, Ibero American General President (SEGIB) Enrique Iglesias, Salvador Mauricio Funes, Bolivia David Choquehuanca, Chile Michelle Bachelet and Costa Rica Oscar Arias. On the second line left to right, Cuba Bruno Rodriguez, Guatemala Roger Haroldo, Mexico Felipe Calderon, Panama Ricardo Martinelli, Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Peru Alan Garcia, Uruguay Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Venezuela Luis Acuna, Dominacan Republic Jose Trullols, Nicaragua Paul Oquist, Honduras Patricia Rodas and Ecuador Rafael Correa.

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  1. The leaders of Ibero American, Andorra and Portugal poss in the official photo surrounded by media at the XIX Ibero American summit in Estoril, near to Lisbon, Portugal, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. From left to right on the first line Colombia Alvaro Uribe, Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Andorra Jaume Bartumeu, Spain King Juan Carlos, Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva, Argentina Cristina Kirchner, Portugal Jose Socrates, Ibero American General President (SEGIB) Enrique Iglesias, Salvador Mauricio Funes, Bolivia David Choquehuanca, Chile Michelle Bachelet and Costa Rica Oscar Arias. On the second line left to right, Cuba Bruno Rodriguez, Guatemala Roger Haroldo, Mexico Felipe Calderon, Panama Ricardo Martinelli, Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Peru Alan Garcia, Uruguay Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Venezuela Luis Acuna, Dominacan Republic Jose Trullols, Nicaragua Paul Oquist, Honduras Patricia Rodas and Ecuador Rafael Correa.
  2. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, right, reacts as he talks with Portugal Primer Minister Jos Socrates, left, as Ibero American General Secretary (SEGIB), Enrique Iglesias, looks on during the general photo of the XIX Ibero American summit in Estoril, near to Lisbon, Portugal, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. The annual summit brings together the leaders of 19 Latin-American countries plus Portugal, Spain and Andorra.
  3. The leaders of Ibero American, Andorra and Portugal wave at the end the official Session of the XIX Ibero American summit in Estoril, near to Lisbon Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. From left to right on the first line Colombia Alvaro Uribe, Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Andorra Jaume Bartumeu, Spain King Juan Carlos, Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva, Argentina Cristina Kirchner, Portugal Jose Socrates, Ibero American General President (SEGIB) Enrique Iglesias, Salvador Mauricio Funes, Bolivia David Choquehuanca, Chile Michelle Bachelet and Costa Rica Oscar Arias. On the second line left to right, Cuba Bruno Rodriguez, Guatemala Roger Haroldo, Mexico Felipe Calderon, Panama Ricardo Martinelli, Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Peru Alan Garcia, Uruguay Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Venezuela Luis Acuna, Dominacan Republic Jose Trullols, Nicaragua Paul Oquist, Honduras Patricia Rodas and Ecuador Rafael Correa.
  4. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, right, is welcomed by Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva at the XIX Ibero American summit Monday, Nov. 30 2009, in Estoril, outside Lisbon. The annual summit brings together the leaders of 19 Latin-American countries plus Portugal, Spain and Andorra.
  5. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, right, is welcomed by Ibero American Secretary General Enrique Iglesias, left, Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates and President Anibal Cavaco Silva, 2nd right, at the XIX Ibero American summit Monday, Nov. 30 2009, in Estoril, outside Lisbon. The annual summit brings together the leaders of 19 Latin-American countries plus Portugal, Spain and Andorra.
  6. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes speaks during the 20th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador November 16, 2009. In the early hours of November 16, 1989, according to a U.N.-sponsored Truth Commission, a group of soldiers entered the campus of the Central American University where Spanish-born Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuria was rector and ordered Ellacuria and five other Jesuit priests to lie face down on the ground and shot them. The killings, like the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the rape and murder of a group of American nuns in 1980, attracted wide international publicity and put pressure on the Salvadoran government.
  7. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes (L) presents a medal to Father Jesus Salguero, in honour of Jesuit priest Juan Ramon Moreno, on the 20th anniversary of Moreno's murder, in San Salvador, November 16, 2009. In the early hours of November 16, 1989, according to a U.N.-sponsored Truth Commission, a group of soldiers entered the campus of the Central American University and ordered Moreno and five other Jesuit priests to lie face down on the ground and shot them. The soldiers then left a note claiming the murders were carried out by left-wing FMLN guerrillas. The killings, like the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the rape and murder of a group of American nuns in 1980, attracted wide international publicity and put pressure on the Salvadoran government.
  8. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes (L) poses for a picture with Catalina Montes, sister of Spanish-born Jesuit priest Segundo Montes, after giving her a medal on the 20th anniversary of her brother's murder, in San Salvador, November 16, 2009. In the early hours of November 16, 1989, according to a U.N.-sponsored Truth Commission, a group of soldiers entered the campus of the Central American University and ordered Montes and five other Jesuit priests to lie face down on the ground and shot them. The soldiers then left a note claiming the murders were carried out by left-wing FMLN guerrillas. The killings, like the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the rape and murder of a group of American nuns in 1980, attracted wide international publicity and put pressure on the Salvadoran government.
  9. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes gives a medal to Father John Sobrino (R), to honour Jesuit priest Amando Lopez, on the 20th anniversary of his murder, in San Salvador, November 16, 2009. In the early hours of November 16, 1989, according to a U.N.-sponsored Truth Commission, a group of soldiers entered the campus of the Central American University and ordered Lopez and five other Jesuit priests to lie face down on the ground and shot them. The soldiers then left a note claiming the murders were carried out by left-wing FMLN guerrillas. The killings, like the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the rape and murder of a group of American nuns in 1980, attracted wide international publicity and put pressure on the Salvadoran government.
  10. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes (L) presents a medal to Juan Antonio Ellacuria (R), brother of Spanish-born Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuria, and his wife Manuela Balenciaga, on the 20th anniversary of his brother's murder, in San Salvador, November 16, 2009. In the early hours of November 16, 1989, according to a U.N.-sponsored Truth Commission, a group of soldiers entered the campus of the Central American University where Ellacuria was rector and ordered Ellacuria and five other Jesuit priests to lie face down on the ground and shot them. The soldiers then left a note claiming the murders were carried out by left-wing FMLN guerrillas. The killings, like the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the rape and murder of a group of American nuns in 1980, attracted wide international publicity and put pressure on the Salvadoran government.
  11. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes gestures during the inauguration of a government's program of integral attention for poor communities in San Martin, El Salvador,Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009.
  12. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes delivers a speech during the inauguration of a government's program of integral attention for poor communities in San Martin, El Salvador,Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009.

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