La Matanza
La Matanza ("The Massacre") was a peasant uprising that started on January 22, 1932, in the western departments of El Salvador. It was suppressed by the government, then led by President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. The Salvadoran Army, being vastly superior, executed those who stood against it. The rebellion was a mixture of protest and insurrection which ended in ethnocide, claiming the lives of an estimated 10,000 to 40,000 peasants and other civilians, many of them Pipil people.