Ávila himself was not substantially involved in partisan politics until he was asked by the ARENA leadership to run as mayor of Santa Tecla, a small suburb of San Salvador.
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Ávila has also studied mathematics and administration at Gainesville State College and police science at Texas A&M University and the FBI National Academy.
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He stood as the then ruling political party ARENA candidate for the presidency of El Salvador in the March 2009 presidential election.
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