El Salvador’s new president-elect is vowing to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba. Mauricio Funes says he will reverse a policy that has not recognized Cuba since the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

El Salvadorian President-elect Mauricio Funes: “I said during my speech announcing running for the presidency, I would reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, because, up to this date, we would be the only Latin American country who does not have diplomatic relations with Cuba, and that’s what I plan on doing.”

Funes’s FMLN party won El Salvador’s election on Sunday, ending twenty years of governance by the US-backed, right-wing ARENA party. His announcement comes as Costa Rica also reopened diplomatic ties with Cuba after nearly fifty years.