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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Mauricio Funes, a television journalist whose party once fought a bloody guerrilla war in El Salvador, on Monday became the country’s first leftist president amid emotional symbols of landmark change.
Funes, 49, a moderate leftist elected under the banner of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, cast himself as a motor of change in the mold of President Barack Obama and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil.
The new president faces a host of problems, topped by an economic crisis and runaway street crime that has resulted in one of the world’s highest murder rates.
