A LEFTIST television journalist made history by bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since the end of a bloody civil war and promised yesterday to unite the country after a bitter presidential campaign.

A leftist television journalist won El Salvador’s presidential elections, bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war and ending two decades of conservative rule.

Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and gunned down four jailed police officers in a mafia hit, the country’s leader said.