Editing Antonio Saca (section)

==President of El Salvador==
 he was sworn in on June 1, 2004 as president of El Salvador and promised to govern "close to the people" seeking job creation and greater security for salvadorans.
Saca, of the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA, right), became president after his resounding victory in the elections of March 21, 2004, in which he defeated Schafik Handal, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left). and achieved for his party the fourth consecutive government since 1989.

Thousands of workers, peasants and left-wing politicians blocked highways and staged riots in different parts of the country in rejection of the fourth government of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), headed by the businessman.

During his presidency, he maintained Salvadoran troops in Iraq, and his opposition to leftist governments in Latin America, especially Cuba and Venezuela. He implemented a plan called "Red Solidaria" that granted a subsidy to families living in extreme poverty.

Linked to several scandals of embezzlement and corruption in the management of public funds, destined for construction, as well as in other State institutions, such as the Ministries of Health, Education, the Multisectoral Investment Bank and the Presidency of the Republic itself.

On June 1, 2009, he handed over the Presidency of the Republic to Mauricio Funes.