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...Conservative websites feasted on the news of Khatami's withdrawal. The pro-Ahmadinejad site Raja News presented a picture of a broken Khatami with divisions in his ranks. The site claims that in one session with supporters on Sunday, Khatami was asked why he was reluctant to persevere, and answered, "One of my apprehensions is that those around me aren't sincere. Three, four of the people who encouraged me to run also went after Moussavi and invited...
Pope John Paul II made evangelizing the Southern Hemisphere a priority of his papacy, visiting Africa 12 times, drawing massive crowds and presumably converting some with his charismatic presence. Benedict hopes to repeat the big crowds, particularly in an open-air mass in Luanda, Angola, on Sunday, though it remains an open question whether this Pope has the same powers of persuasion as his predecessor...
...Sunday's presidential election was won by Mauricio Funes, the candidate of the leftist guerrilla movement turned political party the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). "This is a night of great hope for El Salvador," Funes told supporters Sunday night after his ARENA opponent, former national police director Rodrigo Avila, conceded defeat. "ARENA now passes into the opposition, [but] it can be assured that it will be listened to and respected." (See pictures of the gangs of El Salvador...
...polls by painting him, often maliciously, as a puppet of the more radical Latin left led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The Chavez gambit may have helped defeat the leftist candidate in Mexico's presidential election in 2006, but it didn't work in El Salvador on Sunday - chiefly because Funes successfully painted himself as an ally of the more moderate Latin left headed by Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
...still widely regarded as the party of the wealthy, right-wing landed oligarchy targeted by the FMLN in the civil war, and under its tenure, the poor still feel marginalized. That's why the FMLN claimed 35 of 84 seats in January's national assembly elections and won Sunday's presidential poll...