Clinton versus Obama in El Salvador
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If you scan the websites of the biggest Latin American papers, you’ll find that the U.S. election (and especially the Democratic primary) are daily fodder: The Mexican newspaper Milenio reports on the Kennedy endorsement of Obama today, and the Cuban Prensa Latina reports that Clinton remains the favorite despite Obama’s victory in South Carolina. During a visit this weekend to the remote Morazan region of El Salvador, more than one person asked me about the campaign, with a woman doctor who once worked for the FMLN guerrillas commenting on the New York senator’s attacks on Obama during a recent debate she had seen (dubbed in Spanish) on Salvadoran television: ‘That Hillary is really fierce,’ she said.
-- Hector Tobar in Perquin, El Salvador
