Shafik Handal
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About
Salvadoran politician who ran for president in 2004 and who was a guerrilla leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s during the Salvadoran Civil War.
Before Fame
He joined the Communist Party of El Salvador in the early 1960s.
Trivia
He died two years after he unsuccessfully ran for president of El Salvador as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front's candidate.
Family Life
He is the son of Palestinian immigrants.
Associated With
He was a Latin American Communist leader like Fidel Castro.
