1932 in El Salvador

The following lists events that happened in 1932 in El Salvador.

← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in El Salvador → 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1932 Timeline of Salvadoran history

Incumbents

• President: Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
• Vice President: Vacant

Events

January

• January 3–5 - The 1932 Salvadoran legislative election was held but the results were cancelled by Maximiliano Hernández Martínez due to the Communist Party of El Salvador winning several municipalities.[1][2]
• January 10–12 - Further elections scheduled for January 10 through 12 were cancelled.[3]
• January 22 - Peasants lead by Farabundo Martí, Mario Zapata, and Alfonso Luna rise up in western El Salvador against the government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, initially killing at least 50 people.[4][5]
• January 28 - Feliciano Ama was hanged by the Armed Forces in Izalco for his role in the uprising.[6]

February

• February 1 - Farabundo Martí was executed by a firing squad by the Armed Forces in Izalco for his role in the uprising.

July

• July 11 - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador issued Legislative Decree No. 121 on July 11, 1932, which granted unconditional amnesty to anyone who committed crimes of any nature in order to "restore order, repress, persecute, punish and capture those accused of the crime of rebellion of this year."[7] La Matanza officially ended with 25,000 to 40,000 dead.

December

• December 26 - El Salvador denounced the 1923 Central American Treaty of Peace and Amity.[8][9]

Deaths

• January 28 - Feliciano Ama, activist and revolutionary (b. 1881)
• January 28 - Francisco "Chico" Sanchez, activist and revolutionary (b. ?)
• February 1 - Farabundo Martí, activist and revolutionary (b. 1893)

References

1. Anderson, Thomas P (1971) Matanza: El Salvador's communist revolt of 1932 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p 88
2. Lungo Uclés, Mario (1996) El Salvador in the eighties: counterinsurgency and revolution Philadelphia: Temple University Press, p 114
3. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p 277 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
4. Carlos Henríquez Consalvi and Jeffrey Gould (Directors). 1932, cicatriz de la memoria (Documentary) (in Spanish). Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen.
5. Ching, Erik (September 1995). "Los archivos de Moscú: una nueva apreciación de la insurrección del 32". Tendencias (in Spanish). San Salvador. 3 (44).
6. Galeano, Eduardo (2007). El siglo del viento (in Spanish). Volume 3 (10th ed.). Siglo XXI de España Editores. p. 136. ISBN 978-84-323-1531-2. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
7. Cuellar Martinez, Benjamín (October 2004). "El Salvador: de genocidio en genocidio". Estudios Centroamericanos : Eca (in Spanish). San Salvador: Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas. 59 (672): 1083–1088. ISSN 0014-1445.
8. Grieb, Kenneth J. (1971). "The United States and General Jorge Ubico's Retention of Power". Revista de Historia de América. Pan American Institute of Geography and History (71): 119–135. JSTOR 20138983.
9. Woolsey, L. H. (1934). "The Recognition of the Government of El Salvador". The American Journal of International Law. Cambridge University Press. 28 (2): 325–329. doi:10.2307/2190933. JSTOR 2190933.