Salvadoran peasant uprising of 1932

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The Salvadoran peasant uprising of 1932 was a major rural insurrection led largely by indigenous and communist organizers that was brutally repressed by the military, resulting in a massacre known as La Matanza.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf massacre-related event
peasant revolt
rural insurrection
uprising
alsoKnownAs 1932 Salvadoran peasant revolt
1932 indigenous uprising in El Salvador
commemoratedBy Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
leftist movements in El Salvador
country El Salvador
deathToll tens of thousands of people
estimatedDeaths approximately 10,000–30,000 people
followedBy consolidation of military dictatorship in El Salvador
decades of repression of indigenous identity in El Salvador
strengthening of anti-communist policies in El Salvador
hasCause agrarian inequality
concentration of land in coffee estates
economic crisis following the Great Depression
fraudulent 1931–1932 municipal elections in El Salvador
influence of communist organizing in rural areas
political exclusion of peasants and indigenous people
repression of labor and peasant organizing
hasEffect long-term trauma in western Salvadoran communities
mass killing of indigenous people
suppression of peasant movements
hasHistoricalInterpretation interpreted as a class-based and ethnic-based rebellion
seen as a precursor to the Salvadoran Civil War
location Ahuachapán Department
Izalco
linked to: Izalco Volcano

Santa Ana Department
Sonsonate Department
indigenous communities in El Salvador
western El Salvador
opponent government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
landowning elite of El Salvador
organizer Communist Party of El Salvador
indigenous community leaders
participant Alfonso Luna
Farabundo Martí
Felipe Amaya
Mario Zapata
National Guard of El Salvador
President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
Salvadoran Army
communist organizers
indigenous peasants
rural laborers
partOf history of El Salvador
history of communism in Latin America
history of indigenous peoples in Central America
pointInTime 1932
relatedTo La Matanza
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez dictatorship
Salvadoran Civil War
result La Matanza
significantEvent execution of Farabundo Martí
mass executions without trial
military reprisals against indigenous villages
startTime January 1932

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Farabundo Martí notableEvent Salvadoran peasant uprising of 1932
Salvadoran peasant uprising of 1932 alsoKnownAs 1932 indigenous uprising in El Salvador
linked to: Salvadoran peasant uprising of 1932