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Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was a Salvadoran general and dictator, president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944. In 1932 his regime crushed a peasant uprising in western El Salvador in La Matanza, killing thousands, many of them indigenous Pipil. He ruled through the army until a general strike forced him out in 1944, and he was killed in exile in Honduras.
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