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	friendly dictators
		General Hernandez Martinez's 1932 anti-communist purge, was carried out on behalf of El Salvador's rich coffee oligarchy, the so-called "Fourteen Families".
		Hernandez Martinez initiated an anti-communist purge in 1932 in El Salvador.
		Hernandez Martinez was run out of the country in 1944, but his memory was celebrated as recently as 1980, when the Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Brigade carried out a series of death-squad assassinations of prominent Salvadoran leftists.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html (9246 words)

	Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (1882-1966) served as president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944.
		He promoted economic growth based on the expansion of the large coffee estates, thereby benefiting the landowners and initiating links between the military and the oligarchy.
		Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, who was born October 29, 1882, entered El Salvador's army at an early age.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/maximiliano-hernandez-martinez (877 words)

	Martinez — FactMonster.com
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	Maximiliano Hernández Martínez - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (San Matías, El Salvador 21 de octubre de 1882 - Hacienda Jamastrán, Honduras, 15 de mayo de 1966) fue un militar y político salvadoreño, Presidente de la República (1931-1944).
		Sirvió en diferentes puestos dentro del Ejército hasta que en 1931, luego de un golpe militar llega al poder donde depuso al entonces presidente Arturo Araujo, con lo que comienza la época de dictaduras militares en El Salvador.
		Luego del golpe que derrocó a Araujo, el Directorio cívico puso en el poder al General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, quien se había desempeñado como vicepresidente y ministro de guerra de Arturo Araujo.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximiliano_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Mart%C3%ADnez (569 words)

	Central America
		A failed uprising organized by EI Salvador's Communist Party founder, Farabundo Marti, six weeks after Hernandez Martinez had seized power in a 1931 coup, sparked the General's crackdown on "communists." "Roadways and drainage ditches were littered with bodies," writes Raymond Bonner.
		Men were tied thumb to thumb, then executed, tumbling into mass graves they had first been forced to dig." U.S. warships were stationed off-shore, ready to send in Marines to aid the General in case he ran into serious opposition.
		General Hernandez Martinez's 1932 anti-communist purge (see card 2), was carried out on behalf of EI Salvador's rich coffee oligarchy, the so-called "Fourteen Families." New president Alfredo Cristiani is a member of those same "Fourteen Families" and his ARENA party is linked to brutalities surpassing Hernandez Martinez's.
	home.iprimus.com.au /korob/fdtcards/CentralAmerica.html (1375 words)

	AllRefer.com - Maximiliano HernAndez MartInez (Salvadoran History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Maximiliano HernAndez MartInez[mAk´´sEmElyA´nO ernAn´des mArtE´nes] Pronunciation Key, 1882–1966, president of El Salvador (1931–44).
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	El Salvador - MSN Encarta
		Araújo was a member of the planter elite, but the upper class would not permit him to enact the social reforms he and Masferrer had proposed.
		After a year of strikes and disorder, on December 2, 1931, the military removed Araújo from office and replaced him with his vice president, General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.
		Almost immediately, Martí led a revolt of farm workers, Native Americans, and other rural Salvadorans, armed mostly with machetes.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557648_8/El_Salvador.html (2561 words)

	martinez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GENERAL MAXIMILIANO HERNANDEZ MARTÍNEZ (Salvadoreño) Gobernó como VICE-PRESIDENTE: 4 Diciembre de 1931 al 28 de Agosto de 1934.
		El General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, nació en San Matías, Departamento de La Libertad el 21 de Octubre de 1882, y murió asesinado en Jamastrán, Honduras, el 15 de Mayo de 1966.
		Al General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez se le reconoce como un gobernante honrado durante su Gobierno ningún funcionario se enriqueció a costa del Estado pues el Presidente Martínez, les dio el ejemplo.
	www.fuerzaarmada.gob.sv /heroes-militares/martinez.htm (1142 words)

	Historical Overview: El Salvador \| New Day Films
		The economic and political turmoil leads to uprisings in January of 1932 of primarily Pipil peasants and urban workers led by the Communist party, armed mostly with macheteso and stones.
		In retaliation for the uprisings, Hernandez Martinez orders his soldiers to kill anyone who dresses, looks or sounds indigenous.
		Some 30,000 people are killed in the span of a few weeks in a massacre known as La Matanza, or "The Slaughter." Pipils who survive hide their indigenous heritage, discard their traditional clothing and stop speaking their language.
	www.newday.com /guides/mango/20histelsal.html (1741 words)

	Garcia Marquez - Nobel Prize
		General Gabriel García Moreno ruled Ecuador for sixteen years as an absolute monarch; at his wake, the corpse was seated on the presidential chair, decked out in full-dress uniform and a protective layer of medals.
		General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the theosophical despot of El Salvador who had thirty thousand peasants slaughtered in a savage massacre, invented a pendulum to detect poison in his food, and had streetlamps draped in red paper to defeat an epidemic of scarlet fever.
		The statue to General Francisco Moraz´n erected in the main square of Tegucigalpa is actually one of Marshal Ney, purchased at a Paris warehouse of second-hand sculptures.
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	www.markdanner.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rationale was quite simple: where the "infection" of rebellion had taken hold it must be rooted out, ruthlessly and thoroughly.
		Now, a half century later, rightist officers who counted themselves heirs of Martinez were determined to root out a new infection with equal thoroughness.
		A succession of generals had held power during those fifty years, but as the country's small yet growing middle class began to demand its own voice in Salvador's sclerotic political system, the officer corps came to show increasing signs of strain.
	www.markdanner.com /elsalvado.htm (2746 words)

	Belize
		This revolt of peasants and other poor indigenous peoples was led by the Salvadoran Communist Party, whose central leader was Augustín Faribundo Martí.
		Backed and supported by the U.S., dictator and president Maximiliano Hernández Martínez had his military quell the uprising and execute its leaders.
		However, the government continued on to murder about 30,000 native peasants which came to be known as La Matanza.
	www.umich.edu /~ac213/student_projects/usica/el_salvador.htm (471 words)

	EL SALVADOR AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
		was being governed by General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, a military dictator who admired and had Hitler and Mussolini as models.
		According to the constitution, General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, Araujo’s vice-president, should assume the power since President Araujo had “abandoned” his post
		Nevertheless, since his government was the result of a military coup, both the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly and the international community did not recognize Martínez’s government as legal due to the Washington Treaty of 1923.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/sab86/Mart.htm (2026 words)

	Homo Sum » Blog Archive » Friendly Dictators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A failed uprising organized by El Salvador’s Communist Party founder, Farabundo Marti, six weeks after Hernandez Martinez had seized power in a 1931 coup, sparked the General’s crackdown on “communists.” “Roadways and drainage ditches were littered with bodies,” writes Raymond Bonner.
		One year after Videla’s coup, Amnesty Inter-national estimated 15,000 people had disappeared and many were in secret detention camps, but although the U.S. press admitted human rights abuses occurred in Argentina, Videla was often described as a “moderate” who revitalized his nation’s troubled economy.
		General Hernandez Martinez’s 1932 anti-communist purge (see card 2), was carried out on behalf of El Salvador’s rich coffee oligarchy, the so-called “Fourteen Families.” The country’s new president, Alfredo Cristiani, is a member of those same “Fourteen Families,” and his ARENA party is linked to brutalities that surpass those of Hernandez Martinez.
	www.chrismclaren.com /blog/archives/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators (9068 words)

	Ashes of Izalco
		U.S. military advisors were also sent to supervise the progress of the Salvadoran military and its counterinsurgent campaign.
		However, the seeds of violence that engulfed this tiny Central American nation were planted in the early 1930s, when thousands of Salvadoran Indian and mestizo peasants were massacred by the forces of General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez.
		"La Matanza" and the dictatorship of Hernandez Martinez, who was himself of Indian origin, profoundly affected subsequent political developments in El Salvador, as well as the literary production of the country's intellectual circles.
	www.sdsmt.edu /online-courses/is/hum375/izalco1.htm (1519 words)

	PC(USA) - Worldwide Ministries: El Salvador - History
		However, this progress benefited only a small group; most Salvadorans remained poor.
		General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez ruled El Salvador as a military dictator from 1931 until 1944.
		In the years that followed, military officers continued to control the government, but new political parties and labor unions were allowed to form, giving the urban middle class an opportunity to participate in politics.
	www.pcusa.org /worldwide/elsalvador/history.htm (554 words)

	TIME.com: "I Lament" -- May 29, 1944 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez was fighting the "civil disobedience" of his people (TIME, May 22), the death of a U.S. boy provided the final push to topple the tyrant from power.
		Last week the Salvadorian people were trying, enthusiastically but amateurishly, to set up a democratic government.
		Students and popular leaders crowded into the Assembly, shouted down reactionary Deputies (appointed by Martinez), demanded the ousting of all the henchmen whom the Dictator left behind when he fled to Guatemala.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,850910,00.html (481 words)

	Dictators Supported by the U.S. Government
		Hernandez Martinez was run out of the country in 1944, but
		his memory was celebrated as recently as 1980, when the Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez
		Brigade carried out a series of death-squad assassinations of prominent Salvadoran leftists.
	www.omnicenter.org /warpeacecollection/dictators.htm (8107 words)

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