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Schafik Hándal
Salvadoran politician and guerrilla leader (1930–2006)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Hándal and the second or maternal family name is Hándal.
Schafik Jorge Hándal Hándal (Arabic: شفيق جورج حنضل; October 14, 1930 – January 24, 2006) was a Salvadoran politician.
Biography
Born in Usulután, he was the son of Palestinian immigrants from the town of Bethlehem.[1][2]
Between 1973 and 1994, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of El Salvador (PCES).
As General Secretary of the PCES, Hándal embraced elections and rejected armed struggle to conquer political power in El Salvador. Later on, after two allegedly fraudulent elections in 1972 and in 1977, and despite the intervention of the Communist Party of Cuba (History of the FMLN, newspaper "Frente"), Handal became convinced that the defeat of the military dictatorship would not be possible through elections.
As a guerrilla leader in the lat