El Salvador: Central American Palestine of the West?
Bethlehem families form important segment of Latin nation
By Matthew Ziegler
Special to The Daily Star
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
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International observers at the recent, heated elections in the Central American nation of El Salvador might have been surprised to discover amid the violent political polarization, a curious similarity between its two presidential candidates: both are Palestinian. 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.
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