The following lists events that happened in 1932 in El Salvador.
Incumbents President: Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Vice President: Vacant
Events
January 3–5 January – 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.Anderson, Thomas P (1971) Matanza: El Salvador's communist revolt of 1932 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p 88Lungo Uclés, Mario (1996) El Salvador in the eighties: counterinsurgency and revolution Philadelphia: Temple University Press, p 114 10–12 January – Further elections scheduled for January 10 through 12 were cancelled.Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p 277 22 January – Peasants led 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.
28 January – Feliciano Ama was hanged by the Armed Forces in Izalco for his role in the uprising.
February 1 February – Farabundo Martí was executed by a firing squad by the Armed Forces in Izalco for his role in the uprising.
July 11 July – 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." La Matanza officially ended with 25,000 to 40,000 dead.
December
26 December – El Salvador denounced the 1923 Central American Treaty of Peace and Amity.
Deaths 28 January – Feliciano Ama, activist and revolutionary (b. 1881) 28 January – Francisco "Chico" Sanchez, activist and revolutionary (b. ?) 1 February – Farabundo Martí, activist and revolutionary (b. 1893)
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