Mauricio Sánchez is inaugurated as El Salvador 's president . The new president will find `` a country that still retains a lot of bitterness , a lot of division , '' Peter Hakim , president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue policy institute , said before the election . Funes of the ruling party is El Salvador 's first leftist president . Funes ' political party waged a war against government till early ' 90s . Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among dignitaries at inauguration .
Mauricio Sánchez is inaugurated as El Salvador 's president . Funes of the ruling party is El Salvador 's first leftist president . Funes ' political party waged a war against government till early ' 90s . Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among dignitaries at inauguration .