and possibly good news. A tidbit in Mauricio Funes' Wiki - his wife was involved in the Workers' Party in Brazil. Of course, that is a big tent (multi-factions). Any idea of whether she was closer to Articulação, the center-left group that Lula da Silva is a part of ?

Also, how does Funes fit into the spectrum of the other Central American figures, Álvaro Colom (Guatemala); Manuel Zelaya (Honduras); Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua); Óscar Arias (Costa Rica) ?

These mostly (Zeleya ?) seem center-left, SDP types.