Stand fast!

All the Peace Corps is on "stand fast" mode, meaning we can't leave our sites for security reasons, because the new president Mauricio Funes is being inaugurated Monday. He is the first president in 20 years that is not from the conservative ARENA party. Instead he is FMLN, the political party made up of the former guerillas in El Salvador's 12-year civil war. This sounds like a recipe for violence but really it's not, as the election was completely peaceful and there have not been any indications of backlash.

So I am breaking standfast mode by being at this cyber, but I didn't get the text message about it till I was already here. Don't worry, I'm pretty sure I won't be attacked.

Paz y amor.