Wednesday, June 24, 2009


  • Marti was born in Teotepeque and attended Salesian secondary school of St. Cecilia of Santa Tecla and then he entered university of El Salvador

  • Marti droped out of collage to fight for his community and nation.His major was was political science

  • He was arrested for taking part along with other students in a protest against the Melendez Quinones

  • His polotical party stood up to help the poor and the underprivileged with a socialist ideoloy

  • Marti organized to start a revolution with Alfonso Luna and Mario Zapata

  • La matanza was a peasant led rebellion that ocurred in January 22. The uprising was quickly suppressed by the government, then led by Maximiliano Hernandez whose army was vastly superior in weapons and soldiers, who then proceed execute any one who stood against it. The rebellion was a mixture of protest and insurrection and ended in ethnocide, claming the lives of anywhere between 10,000 and 40,000 peasants, other civilians many of them Indigenous people.
  • Marti was asasenated
  • I do admire Marti because ha stood up for the poor people's right. I don't think I would do anything different than he did.