Funes and Martinelli, the Most Popular

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According to the regional survey by Cid-Gallup, which interviewed 1.200 people, Oscar Arias from Costa Rica is in the third place, with a 70% popularity.

He is followed by Alvaro Colom, from Guatemala, with 55%; Leonel Fernández, from Dominican Republic with 47%; deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya with 46% and Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan president, with 42%.

From El Financiero's web site: "It is worth noting that the study is not an evaluation of their job as presidents, but rather what citizens think of them as persons".

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