Who is agustin farabundo marti

The army, the police, the Guardia National and the private forces of the hacienda owners engaged in a weeklong orgy of killing. In some cases, whole villages disappeared. Exact figures have never been known, but the death toll is estimated between 10, and 30, people.

The dictatorship insisted that only were killed. As it became increasingly dangerous to be identified as indio Indian , traditional dress, language and customs largely disappeared. As a result of his activities, he was regularly arrested and deported by the authoritarian regimes ruling throughout Central America.

In he found himself in Nicaragua alongside Augusto Sandino, fighting with his forces against the U. He returned to El Salvador two years later to launch the Salvadoran Communist Party, which would play a leading role in one of the country's most dramatic and tragic episodes.

Marti, sitting right, is pictured with Augusto Sandino, standing center. In January of , the Salvadoran people together with the Communist Party under Martis leadership rose up against the dictatorship of Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez. The regime responded with brutal repression , killing an estimated 10, and 40, people.

Marti was sentenced to death on Jan. Inspired by the victory of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in neighboring Nicaragua, the FMLN was founded on October 10, , through the union of five existing guerrilla organizations, which had been fighting the authoritarian regime in El Salvador throughout the s.

Because of this pressure, he was released, and he went to New York in He was picked up in a police raid and decided to return to El Salvador. He returned via Nicaragua and came into contact with Sandino's anti-American campaign. At one point he was arrested and jailed for allegedly taking part in the coup of Daniel Flores.

He was arrested and put on an enforced ocean voyage. He returned in February , determined to stir up trouble.