Farabundo Martí
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Agustín Farabundo Martí Rodríguez (b. May 5, 1893, Teotepeque, Departamento de La Libertad, El Salvador – d. February 1, 1932) was a revolutionary in El Salvador.
Early on, he worked with Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Augusto César Sandino, although they broke over political disagreements. Farabundo Marti, a communist, with the Socorro Rojo Internacional, led a communist alternative to the Red Cross. In 1932, they helped start a guerrilla revolt of indigenous campesinos. In the government reprisals, over thirty thousand indigenous people were killed in what became known as La Matanza. He was executed by the U.S.-organized National Guard.
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The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front was named after him.
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