An estimated 100,000 mourners attended the funeral in El Salvador this weekend of former communist guerrilla leader Schafik Handal, who died last week.
Schafik Handa's funeral in San Salvador was the biggest since Cardinal Romero was murdered in 1980
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 some 75,000 lives.
The son of Palestinian immigrants, Handal was buried after a mass at San Salvador's cathedral attended by large crowds. He died of a heart attack last Tuesday. He was 75.
Red flowers and flags of El Salvador, Palestine and the FMLN adorned his cortege. Nicaraguan former President Daniel Ortega, head of the Sandinista government in the 1980s, was among the mourners.
"Schafik left us a very important legacy for the revolutionary struggle," said mourner Jose Santana, 55, a former rebel fighter.
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.
Handal ran for president in March 2004 but lost to conservative Tony Saca.