Leftist Ex-CNN Reporter Wins El Salvador Presidency

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —  A leftist television journalist made history by bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since the end of a bloody civil war and promised Monday to unite the country after a bitter presidential campaign.

Mauricio Funes, a moderate plucked from outside the ranks of the rebel-group-turned-political-party Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, ended two decades of conservative rule in El Salvador in Sunday's election — and became the latest leftist to rise to power in Latin America at a time of uncertainty over how President Barack Obama will approach the region....