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Miguel Mármol: 1905-1993: Union Activist Biography

Raised In Poverty, Learned Shoemaking And Politics, Joined The Workers' Movement, Survived His Execution



Miguel Mármol: 1905-1993: Union activist.




A shoemaker by trade and a revolutionary by avocation, Miguel Mármol devoted his life to organizing the peasants and workers of El Salvador and Guatemala. He was a founding member of El Salvador's Communist Party (CP) and the Young Communist League. The Salvadoran National Guard called him the "Red Phantom," because he repeatedly avoided capture and disappeared, only to return again, most notably after surviving his own execution.




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