El Salvador’s Military Massacres Civilians in La Matanza
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Human Rights, Violence, Massacres, Genocide, Torture
- Curriculum: Latin American History
- Geographical Location: El Salvador
- Date: January-February, 1932
Article abstract: The massacre of up to thirty thousand peasants by the army ended a radical reform movement in the Salvadoran countryside and ushered in fifty years of repression and military rule.
Summary of Event
Social relations in El Salvador in the first decades of the twentieth century were characterized by a wide division in power. The peasant masses, who had once enjoyed communal property rights as part of an ancient landholding system, had seen these rights taken away in the late 1800’s by a powerful clique of coffee planters. Behind a shield...
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