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Karina Sosa

Salvadoran politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ61458203 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karina Ivette Sosa de Rodas (born 5 April 1976) is a Salvadoran politician and member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). She was a member of the national Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2012 to 2021, and is currently a deputy in the Central American Parliament.

In May 2018, Sosa ran unopposed for the FMLN's vice-presidential nomination in the forthcoming 2019 presidential election. She won her party's nomination with 21,197 votes, thereby becoming the running mate of FMLN presidential candidate, Hugo Martínez.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Karina Sosa” as salvadoran politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2012, 2021, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-04-05. The account is most persuasive where Karina, Sosa and Salvadoran can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as salvadoran politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61458203. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2012, 2021 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karina Sosa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.