Editing Armed Forces of El Salvador (section)

===La Matanza===
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Military operations in El Salvador continued in a similar way until the early 20th century.<ref name="Perez"/> During the [[Great Depression]], coffee prices fell, the wages of indigenous Salvadoran workers were cut and unemployment was widespread. For three days in 1932, the indigenous workers rebelled.<ref>[http://equalexchange.coop/history-of-coffee-in-el-salvador History of Coffee in El Salvador] Equal Exchange website. Accessed 26 February 2018.</ref> The ruling general, [[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]] (1882 {{ndash}} 1966), responded with force. Under his command, the national army proper, slaughtered up to 40,000 peasants.<ref>Lindo-Fuentes H. et al [https://books.google.com/books?id=AubqWtPHt1kC&q=1932+massacre+salvador ''Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932''] UNM Press, 2007 p23. {{ISBN|0826336043}}</ref>