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	Schafik Handal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schafik Jorge Handal (October 14, 1930 – January 24, 2006) was a Salvadoran politician.
		Opponents accused Handal of exploiting anti-American sentiment while FMLN supporters accused the United States of corrupting the electoral process, because several high ranking U.S. officials stated that American relations with El Salvador would be seriously threatened if Handal won the elections.
		Handal was defeated by the candidate of the ruling conservative ARENA party, Antonio Saca, by a margin of 58% to 36%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schafik_Handal (397 words)

	Freedom Road Socialist Organization \| Statemetn on the Death of Schafik Hándal
		Schafik Hándal led a life of unwavering commitment to liberation of the people of El Salvador.
		While he spent his entire life as a leader in the revolutionary movement in El Salvador, Schafik was also an internationalist, always supporting progressive movements around the world and opposing imperialism right up through his principled and strong opposition to El Salvador's participation in the U.S. war against the Iraqi people.
		Schafik Hándal gave the whole of his life to the struggle.
	www.frso.org /about/statements/2006/schafik.htm (342 words)

	Communist Party of El Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, former Communist Party leader Schafik Handal was the FMLN's presidential candidate in the 2004 elections.
		During the Salvadoran civil war from 1980 to 1992, Schafik Handal was the leader of the Communist Party.
		Prior to him, Cayetano Carpio was the CP leader in the 1960s, before leaving the CP to form the FPL and launch the armed struggle against the dictatorship in 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_El_Salvador (316 words)

	Tim's El Salvador Blog: FMLN leader Schafik Handal dies of heart attack
		Schafik Handal, the ex-guerilla commander who was the FMLN candidate for president of El Salvador in 2004, died of a heart attack today.
		Handal was a senior member of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, rebel group that fought a 12-year civil war with right-wing governments that ended in 1992.
		Handal had a heart attack at San Salvador airport while returning from the weekend inauguration of new Bolivian President Evo Morales, FMLN officials said.
	luterano.blogspot.com /2006/01/fmln-leader-schafik-handal-dies-of.html (397 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Salvadoran candidate in Sunday's presidential vote wrestles with ghost of ...
		SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Schafik Handal spent most of his life as a Communist Party activist, but he sought to distance himself from that past during his campaign as one of the two front-runners in Sunday's presidential election.
		Handal was head of the Communist Party when it joined with four other guerrilla groups to form the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which was fighting U.S.-supported military governments.
		Handal's opponents argued that a Front victory Sunday would anger the U.S. government, cut off the flow of money from Salvadorans working in the United States and turn this country into a communist society.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040320-1242-salvador-election.html (600 words)

	Bethlehemites in Salvador
		Tony Saca, a hard-line capitalist with strong American ties, and Schafik Handal, a Cuban-style communist, both hail from families that emigrated from Bethlehem together in 1913.
		Schafik Handal was one of these: having earned his first scars fighting against a military dictatorship in the 1940s, he rose to prominence 40 years later as a guerilla leader in the Communist Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN), which received much of its support from Yasser Arafat and the PLO.
		Throughout the country, walls are papered with photographs of the two candidates smiling benevolently; every bridge and telephone poll painted in party colors and until the elections, radio and television were filled with vitriolic propaganda for the competing politicians.
	www.bethlehemassoc.org /sub_pages/ElSalvador_DailyStarArticle.htm (1183 words)

	MS Central America - Schafik Handal is Dead
		Schafik Handal, the historical leader of the Salvadoran guerrilla and president of the FMLN parliamentary bench died on Tuesday 23 January.
		Schafik Handal suffered a massive heart attack immediately upon arrival in El Salvador from Bolivia, where he had attended the inauguration of Evo Morales as first indigenous president of that South American country.
		He was the president of the Communist Party, one of the four groups that made up the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), which during the civil war that ravaged El Salvador from 1980 to 1992 came to be one of the strongest guerrilla movements in the history of the continent.
	www.ms.dk /sw33884.asp (391 words)

	[Marxism] El Salvador's US Installed 'Democracy' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They employed a vicious smear campaign against the FMLN candidate Schafik Handal, a veteran of the civil war, who was labeled a kidnapper and a terrorist in a personal attack campaign also illegal under the law.
		Handal's party, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, was the rebel force that fought the government.
		Handal promised to bring the 380-troop Salvadoran contingent home from Iraq, restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, tax the rich more heavily, increase government spending for the poor and still seek good relations with the United States.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2004-March/005777.html (1771 words)

	Council of the Americas - Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schafik Handal, recognized as one of the most prominent Leftist leaders in Latin America, and a candidate in El Salvador's upcoming presidential election, will give a press conference following his presentation to the Council of the Americas on Wednesday, February 11.
		Handal is an important leader of the FMLN since its inception in 1979 and throughout
		Handal is currently serving a third term as a member of the National Congress, and heads the FMLN faction within the Salvadorean legislative body.
	www.americas-society.org /PR/2-9-04-Handal.htm (290 words)

	Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hándal was returning from Bolivia where he attended the inauguration of Bolivian President Evo Morales; as he was walking through the Comalapa Airport in El Salvador he collapsed from an apparent heart attack and was treated by paramedics before being taken to the Hospital de la Mujer by helicopter.
		Jorge Schafik Hándal first became active in 1944 during the famous strike of “brazos caidos” which lead to the fall of the dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.
		He later became leader of the Salvadoran Communist Party, and spent many years in exile before returning to El Salvador to help lead the rise of the FMLN and guide the armed struggle that ultimately fended off death squads, the right-wing military regime, and significant US intervention to produce the 1992 Peace Accords.
	www.cispes.org /english/Updates_and_Analysis/schafik.html (384 words)

	granma.cu - Fidel sends message of condolence to Schafik’s family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		“Schafik was a great captain of the workers, a great revolutionary leader, an extraordinary human being,” says the message, read out during Handal’s funeral by Jaime Crombet, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Prensa Latina reported.
		Thousands of Salvadorans bid an emotional farewell to the former guerrilla commander Schafik Handal, accompanying his funeral cortege through the streets of the capital to the cemetery where he was buried on Sunday, January 29.
		San Salvador’s auxiliary bishop, Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chávez, stated that Schafik Handal was that country’s greatest politician of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2006/enero/lun30/06envio.html (408 words)

	Palestinian twist to election
		When Tony Saca's maternal grandfather set sail for the Americas in 1912, one of his shipmates was an uncle of Schafik Handal, whose father arrived a few years later.
		Handal's father and mother were even godparents at the wedding of Saca's parents.
		Handal headed the Communist faction in the guerrilla coalition that fought the government from 1980 to 1992.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/03/20/cache/116217.html (770 words)

	ABC News: Thousands mourn Salvador ex-rebel chief Handal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Handal was a senior leader of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, rebel group that fought a series of U.S.-backed right-wing governments throughout the 1980s in a war that claimed around 75,000 lives.
		The son of Palestinian immigrants, Handal was buried after a mass at San Salvador's cathedral attended by large crowds.
		It was the biggest gathering in the streets of San Salvador since the 1980 funeral of murdered Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, whose killing symbolized the terror sowed by right-wing death squads.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1554945 (237 words)

	Comandante Schafik Handal -- 1930-2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Handal was key in founding the FMLN and in working out the strategy and operations of the guerrilla war from 1980-91, when he was also commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Liberation (FAL), one of the five armed groups within the FMLN.
		Handal served on the general command for the entire period of conflict, and was also a key negotiator of the peace accord.
		Handal was a founder of COPAZ (the National Commission for Consolidating Peace) and was subsequently elected general secretary of the FMLN.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2006/655/655p19.htm (1424 words)

	Proceso -Weekly News Bulletin- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The case is that Handal's trajectory, profound convictions, public and private behavior, political commitments and international projection, altogether irradiate values that transcend the two political projects which Handal was linked to: the Communist Party of El Salvador and the FMLN.
		Schafik Handal expresses one of these ways: the one that along the history faced the power and its repression, threats, tortures, exiles and flmail.
		Handal was the privileged heir of this left wing.
	www.uca.edu.sv /publica/proceso/proci1178.html (2887 words)

	Burningman : FMLN leader Jorge Schafik Hándal dies at 75
		Schafik, from his youth, decided to dedicate his life to the popular struggle against the military dictatorships and for the end of the conditions of poverty and marginalization that the Salvadoran people have suffered for centuries.
		When the political and electoral struggle against militarism and for democracy was blocked by repression and fraud, Schafik rose to the challenge of the circumstances that the moment demanded, playing a key role in the unification of the left and in the subsequent unfolding of the revolutionary armed struggle.
		Schafik Hándal has been, is and will continue to be a national treasure, for giving himself to the struggle for democracy, justice and socialism.
	burning.typepad.com /burningman/2006/01/fmln_leader_jor.html (2553 words)

	Schafik Handal, ex-guerrilla leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Handal was a senior leader of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, rebel group that fought a series of US-backed right-wing governments throughout the 1980s in a war that claimed around 75 000 lives.
		The FMLN became a political party under the peace agreement and Handal, a friend of Cuban President Fidel Castro, was elected to the National Assembly.
		Despite his dour appearance and hard-line positions, Handal was an astute negotiator and was credited with helping save the peace process at times of tension with funny one-liners.
	www.namibian.com.na /2006/January/world/062202632.html (461 words)

	SCHAFIK HANDAL VISITS LOS ANGELES OCT
		In a few days Schafik Jorge Handal, FMLN candidate for president of El Salvador, will arrive in Los Angeles for a series of events focusing on his campaign leading to the March, 2004 elections.
		Born in 1930, Schafik Handal's life has, for over five decades, paralleled the revolutionary struggle for change in his country.
		He was one of the five-member general command of the FMLN throughout the war.
	www.change-links.org /HANDAL.htm (367 words)

	granma.cu - Social forum and Salvadoran people pay tribute to Schafik Handal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In that context, Leonel González, member of the FMLN Political Committee, told PL that the death of Schafik Handal is a loss for all Salvadorans.
		On Thursday morning, Handal’s remains will be taken to the Legislative Assembly, where they will be placed in the chapel and flanked by his comrade deputies.
		Handal is to buried on Sunday in a cemetery in the Salvadoran capital.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2006/enero/juev26/06forosh.html (380 words)

	Tears & cheers for Salvadoran revolutionary
		While half a million people mourned former rebel leader Schafik Handal in the streets of San Salvador on Jan. 30, Salvadorans in the U.S. and Canada celebrated the life of this leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
		Handal was the leader of the Salva doran Communist Party and its representative on the directorate of the FMLN.
		This struggle for change was the focus of the life of Schafik Handal and the objective of FMLN members everywhere.
	www.workers.org /2006/world/schafik-handal-0209 (892 words)

	People's Weekly World - Schafik Handal, revolutionary leader, 75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On Jan. 24, Handal collapsed and died of a heart attack at Comalpa Airport in San Salvador on his way home from the inauguration of Evo Morales in Bolivia.
		Schafik Handal was born in El Salvador on Oct. 14, 1930, the son of immigrant Palestinians from Bethlehem.
		Handal was elected to the country’s Legislative Assembly in 1997.
	www.pww.org /article/articleview/8577/1/308 (414 words)

	americas.org - El Salvador buries revolutionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schafik Handal was the main leader of the political party formed by El Salvador's left-wing guerrillas at the end of the civil war in 1992.
		He said Handal had wanted to be remembered as a fighter for democracy in his country, whose struggle to get the people of El Salvador the right to choose for themselves.
		His death will leave a gap in the leadership of the former guerrillas and the main opposition party as they start campaigning for mid-term elections due to be held in March.
	www.americas.org /item_24726 (314 words)

	CAFTA and Election Update
		Handal’s wake lasted five days, and FMLN followers from around the country poured into the capital to pay their respects.
		While ARENA stopped using the name Schafik Handal in their electoral message, the FMLN is asking for votes to honor his memory.
		ARENA party Political Affairs Director César Funes assures the references to Handal were due to the fact that “historically he was the spokesperson for that party (FMLN).
	www.crispaz.org /news/list/2006/0307.htm (1445 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schafik Jorge Handal, a senior leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) of EI Salvador died of a heart attack last Tuesday, January 24.
		Following the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992 the FMLN was converted into a political party and Handal became its coordinator.
		He was the leader of the FMLN Group in the EI Salvador Legislative Assembly.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2006/01/29/new30.html (177 words)

	World Affairs Council of Northern California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A 12-year civil war in El Salvador, which cost about 75,000 lives, was brought to a close in 1992 when the government and leftist rebels signed the Salvadoran Peace Accord that provided for military and political reforms.
		Schafik Handal, the Majority Leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and a candidate to the Presidency of the Republic.
		Handal will speak about the current situation in El Salvador, and will be joined by California State Senator Liz Figueroa.
	www.itsyourworld.org /program.php?page=658 (197 words)

	World \| CRIENGLISH
		"Schafik, the people are with you" and "The commander stays with us" were two of the chants sung by people at the service at San Salvador's Cementerio de Los Illustres, burial place of communist leader Agustin Farabundo Marti, who died in 1932, and was Handal's role model.
		Before being buried, Handal's body left El Salvador University and made a stop at the Metropolitan Cathedral where assistant archbishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez held a mass for the leader.
		Handal, 75, died last Tuesday as he returned from the inauguration of Bolivia's new president Evo Morales.
	en.chinabroadcast.cn /2239/2006-1-30/64@296284.htm (350 words)

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