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Obama's visit dispels fears over relations: El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- President Mauricio Funes said Saturday he is gratified that Barack Obama is including his small country in a tour of Latin America, saying the visit dispels fears relations would suffer under El Salvador's first leftist government.

Funes was elected in 2009 with the support of a party of former Marxist guerrillas that fought to overthrow U.S.-backed governments in the 1980s. His rise to power unseated two decades of conservative governments that made El Salvador among the staunchest U.S. allies in Latin America.

Opponents had warned those ties would decline, but Funes said Obama's planned visit Tuesday proves them wrong.

“We have won the battle against disinformation,” Funes said at a news conference with foreign reporters. “We have dispelled the fear that relations would deteriorate.”

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