1932 in El Salvador

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The following lists events that happened in 1932 in El Salvador .

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Dead bodies of the killing of the Salvadoran Army in 1932.

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References

  1. ↑ Anderson, Thomas P (1971) Matanza: El Salvador's communist revolt of 1932 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p 88
  2. ↑ Lungo Uclés, Mario (1996) El Salvador in the eighties: counterinsurgency and revolution Philadelphia: Temple University Press, p 114
  3. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p 277 ISBN   978-0-19-928357-6
  4. ↑ Carlos Henríquez Consalvi and Jeffrey Gould (Directors). 1932, cicatriz de la memoria (Documentary) (in Spanish). Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen.
  5. ↑ Ching, Erik (September 1995). "Los archivos de Moscú: una nueva apreciación de la insurrección del 32". Tendencias (in Spanish). San Salvador. 3 (44).
  6. ↑ Galeano, Eduardo (2007). El siglo del viento (in Spanish). Vol. 3 (10th ed.). Siglo XXI de España Editores. p. 136. ISBN   978-84-323-1531-2 . Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  7. ↑ Cuellar Martinez, Benjamín (October 2004). "El Salvador: de genocidio en genocidio". Estudios Centroamericanos (in Spanish). San Salvador: Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas. 59 (672): 1083–1088. ISSN   0014-1445.
  8. ↑ Grieb, Kenneth J. (1971). "The United States and General Jorge Ubico's Retention of Power". Revista de Historia de América. Pan American Institute of Geography and History (71): 119–135. JSTOR   20138983.
  9. ↑ Woolsey, L. H. (1934). "The Recognition of the Government of El Salvador". The American Journal of International Law. Cambridge University Press. 28 (2): 325–329. doi:10.2307/2190933. JSTOR   2190933.
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