Farabundo Martí
Agustín Farabundo Martí Rodríguez (born May 5, 1893 in Teotepeque , La Libertad , † February 1, 1932 ) was a functionary of the Salvadoran Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Salvadoreño ) in El Salvador .
Life
Farabundo Martí graduated from the Colegio Salesiano Santa Cecilia in Santa Tecla . He studied law at the Universidad de El Salvador . In 1920 he was deported to Guatemala because he had been politically active against the Meléndez-Quiñonez dynasty . In 1925 he participated in the founding of the Partido Comunista Centroamericano . In 1925 he returned to El Salvador as a delegate of the Socorro Rojo Internacional and helped organize the Federación Regional de Trabajadores Salvadoreños .
Martí has been arbitrarily arrested and deported on several occasions. He became a delegate of the Communist International . In early 1928 the American Anti-Imperialist League put stickers on their mail with the words “Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua”. The US Mail did not deliver the items and US Postmaster General Harry S. New threatened with a fine or up to five years in prison. In 1928 Farabundo Martí traveled to New York where he joined the League Anti-imperialista de las Américas . As a delegate of this organization, he traveled to Nicaragua and temporarily acted as secretary to General Augusto César Sandino . On December 3, 1931 , the previous Minister of War, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, came to power in San Salvador.
Local elections were held in El Salvador in January 1932. The PCES gained a majority in numerous parishes. Agustín Farabundo Martí received the order from the PCES to prepare a revolution. He was arrested just before the revolution was due to begin. The uprising, which began on January 22, 1932, was suppressed within a few days by a prepared army . The army then carried out a massacre of the indigenous population in western El Salvador , in which around 30,000 people were murdered. Farabundo Martí was sentenced to death , and on February 1, 1932 along with Alfonso Luna and Mario Zapata shot .
The current political party El Salvador Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional , founded as a rebel organization, was named after him. The radio station Radio Farabundo Marti (RFM) was also named after Farabundo Martí , and began operations on January 22, 1982, the 50th anniversary of the bloodily suppressed popular uprising of 1932.
literature
- Jorge Arias Gómez : Farabundo Marti. Life, work and time of the great Salvadoran revolutionary . Berlin (West): Edition New Paths, 1985. ISBN 3-88348-202-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ en: American Anti-Imperialist League
- ^ Time , Feb. 13, 1928 Stickers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martí, Farabundo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martí, Agustín Farabundo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Salvadoran revolutionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teotepeque , La Libertad |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1932 |