Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

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Brigadier General

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
Hernandez Martinez.jpg
30th President of El Salvador
In office
1 March 1935 – 9 May 1944
Preceded byAndrés Ignacio Menéndez
Succeeded byAndrés Ignacio Menéndez
In office
4 December 1931 – 28 August 1934
Acting President
Preceded byCivic Directory
Arturo Araujo as President
Succeeded byAndrés Ignacio Menéndez
Vice President of El Salvador
In office
1 March 1931 – 2 December 1931
PresidentArturo Araujo
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Minister of National Defense
In office
1 March 1931 – 2 December 1931
PresidentArturo Araujo
Preceded byPío Romero Bosque
Succeeded byOsmín Aguirre y Salinas
Personal details
Born(1882-10-20)20 October 1882
San Matías, La Libertad, El Salvador
Died15 May 1966(1966-05-15) (aged 83)
Hacienda Jamastrán, Honduras
Cause of deathAssassination
Political partyNational Pro Patria Party
Other political
affiliations		National Republican Party (1931)
Spouse(s)Concepción Monteagudo
OccupationMilitary officer, politician
Military service
Allegiance El Salvador
Branch/serviceSalvadoran Army
Years of service1899–1944
RankBrigadier General El Salvador Brigadier General
Battles/warsThird Totoposte War
1931 Salvadoran coup d'état
La Matanza

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (20 October 1882 – 15 May 1966) was the President of El Salvador from 4 December 1931 to 28 August 1934 in an acting capacity and again in an official capacity from 1 March 1935 until his resignation on 9 May 1944. He was the leader of El Salvador during World War II. While he served as President Arturo Araujo's Vice President and defense minister, a directorate seized power during a palace coup and afterwards named General Hernández Martínez President of El Salvador.

He was President of El Salvador for almost 12 years and ruled the nation with an authoritarian one party state lead by the fascistic and anti-communist National Pro Patria Party.[1][2][3][4] His rule was marked by rigged and fraudulent elections[5] and brutality, most notably the 1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre, known as La Matanza ("The Massacre").[6] Under his rule, El Salvador joined the Allied Powers during World War II on 8 December 1941 following the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. He also benefited the nation through infrastructure projects such as the Pan-American Highway and the Cuscatlán Bridge. He also established the Central Reserve Bank, but he was eventually forced to resign on 9 May after a military mutiny the month prior and massive civil unrest.

Early and personal life[]

Personal indetification of General Martinez, photograph taken at the military museum; San Salvador. El Salvador

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was born to Raymundo Hernández and Petronila Martínez on October 20, 1882. He is the youngest of eight children: Alberto, Carmen, Esperanza, Marina, Eduardo, Rosa, Gloria, and Maximiliano.[7] His family relationship with his family always strained due to his theosophical beliefs, straying from the family’s religion: Roman Catholicism. He was a vegetarian due to his religious beliefs and was obsessed with the occult, science, and his belief in reincarnation.[8][9] He was abstemious, a habit that was strictly instilled in him by his father.[10]

Studies and military career[]

He studied secondary education at the . After finishing his secondary education studies, he entered the , where he obtained the degree of Sub-Lieutenant. He returned to El Salvador during the presidency of General Tomás Regalado. Upon his return, he studied at the at the University of El Salvador.

He was promoted to lieutenant on 17 November 1903; to captain on 23 August 1906; to captain major the same year, during the Third Totoposte War with Guatemala where Hernández Martínez fought under General Tomás Regalado; to lieutenant colonel on 6 May 1909; and finally to colonel on 15 June 1914. On 14 July 1919, the National Legislative Assembly promoted him to the rank of brigadier general and the legislative decree was sanctioned by the president Jorge Meléndez Ramírez on 17 September.[11] He became Minister of National Defense on 1 March 1931.[12]

Rise to power[]

Further information: 1931 Salvadoran general election, 1931 Salvadoran coup d'état, and Civic Directory

In the 1931 presidential election he was initially a candidate for his National Republican Party. He joined forces with Arturo Araujo of the Labor Party, running on a reformist platform. The ticket won the election with a 46.65% margin and 106,777 votes in what was considered the first free multiparty election in Salvadoran history and the last for over half a century.

The reason for the coup was that military personnel had not been paid their salary, although it is sometimes attributed to the fall in prices of coffee abroad. The reality is that officers were not paid and the Finance Minister had only paid the police, who remained loyal to the president. The army officers were angry and ousted President Araujo on 2 December 1931.[13] In its place, the military officers established the Civic Directory. Two days later on 4 December, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez became Acting President of El Salvador.

The United States did not recognize the legitimacy of Hernández Martínez's rise to power or government due to the 1923 Central American Treaty of Peace and Amity and only recognized his government after his government put down the communist uprising in early 1932.[14] Hernández Martínez eventually denounced El Salvador's membership of the treaty on 26 December 1932.[15][16]

Presidency[]

La Matanza[]

Main article: La Matanza
A list of Communist Party members.
Dead bodies of the killing of the salvadorean army in 1932.

Legislative elections were scheduled for 3-5 January 1932 and Hernández Martínez's government promised free and fair elections. To participate in the election, however, voters had to be registered in their municipalities alongside their party, thus giving the government a list of Communist Party members.[17] The communists won several municipalities but Hernández Martínez cancelled the election results[9][18] and cancelled follow up elections scheduled for 10-12 January.[19][5]

In response to the election cancellation, many in the Salvadoran Communist Party believed that armed insurrection was the only choice since both democracy and Hernández Martínez's authoritarian government had both failed.[20] The rebellion was planned for mid-January.[21] Meanwhile, indigenous peasants also planned a revolt of their own to protest the poor living conditions in western El Salvador.

On 22 January 1932 peasants in western El Salvador attacked military barracks and wealthy estates and killed around 100 people.[6][22] The rebels, lead by Feliciano Ama, Farabundo Martí, , and , seized control of the towns of Juayúa, Nahuizalco, Izalco, and Tlacopan. Barracks in towns such as Ahuachapán, Santa Tecla, and Sonsonate resisted the attacks and remained under government control.[23]

Hernández Martínez responded quickly to the uprising in western El Salvador and ordered the Army to put down the revolt.[24] He organized several of his military officers to accomplish specific tasks to crush the rebellion. General was tasked with evicting rebels from western El Salvador, Colonel Osmín Aguirre y Salinas was to arrest communist leader Farabundo Martí, Colonel had to recapture Santa Tecla, and Major had to recapture Tacuba.

After 72 hours, the rebellion was crushed. The specific number of victims is unknown, but estimates range from 10,000 to 40,000 for the entire rebellion.[9] American historian says there were no more than 10,000 killed.[citation needed] He does accept that the military killed people without a judgement and that they were usually killed by a firing squad after being compelled to dig their own graves. Usually they only needed to be Indian, usually male, from the town, and listed as voters of the Communist party in that town. The leaders of the rebellion were all executed: Feliciano Ama was lynched by the Army while the communist leaders were executed by firing squad.[25][26]

After the conflict, survivors attempted to flee to Guatemala. In response, President Jorge Ubico ordered the border to be closed and handed over anyone who attempted to cross to the Salvadoran army.[27]

As resolution of the conflict, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador issued Legislative Decree No. 121 on July 11, 1932, which granted unconditional amnesty to anyone who committed crimes of any nature in order to "restore order, repress, persecute, punish and capture those accused of the crime of rebellion of this year."[28]

Authoritarian presidency[]

Hernández Martínez's government policies had various effects on the country's cultural, political, and economic life. By establishing a centralized government, he participated in almost all the decisions that had to be made, directing almost every single one of his government's activities.[29] He distanced the military, except himself, from the civil administration of the country resulting in military officers being a minority within his cabinet. The salaries for government officials and for the military were extremely low, compared to previous times, which significantly scared away the military from interested in participating in the government despite higher wages being one of the reasons the military toppled Araujo's government in 1931.[13][30] However, he always preferred to be close to military protection, therefore, he transferred the presidential office and his family residence to the then Normal School for Boys, next to the El Zapote Barracks.[31]

President Hernández Martínez at the opening of the Cuscatlán Bridge.
President Hernández Martínez at the opening of the Flor Blanca National Stadium.

He promoted economic growth based on the expansion of large coffee plantations, thus benefiting landowners and initiating links between the military and the oligarchy. During his presidency, the creation of the Central Reserve Bank and the , the , the Rural Credit Box, the Cotton Cooperative, the General Directorate of Public Works, and the Social Improvement, developed a commendable work within its functions.[32][33][additional citation(s) needed]

Roads were built throughout the country such as the Pan-American Highway and the Flor Blanca National Stadium (now the Estadio Jorge "Mágico" González) where the Third Central American and Caribbean Games were held in 1935. Buildings such as the telegraph building, the castle of the former National Guard (current headquarters of the General Directorate of the National Civil Police), and large bridges such as the Cuscatlán Bridge over the Lempa River were built in 1942.[34]

On 23 February 1932 the Salvadoran government defaulted on its external debt and stated that it would not pay the loans if the interests were not softened and the term was extended. The net debt, that is to say without interest, was fully paid off in 1938, although the interest was not paid off until 1960.[35] Once the debt had been paid off, Hernández Martínez proposed, through a commemorative plaque placed in the Legislative Assembly, the policy of non-acquisition of loans international in the future. Despite this initiative, he also acquired loans for the construction of the Pan-American Highway.[36] On the other hand, on 12 March 1932, he decreed the Moratorium Law, by which he reduced the interests of the debtors who were about to fall into bankruptcy. In addition, with the objective of stabilizing the value of the colón, he created the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador in 1934, indemnifying private banks to stop issuing money.[32][33][37][38]

As for policies referring directly to the population, his theosophical customs prevailed. For example, when a smallpox plague broke out in San Salvador, he treated it by covering the lamps in the squares with blue paper, hoping that "invisible doctors" would save those who were destined to live.[39] Among other things, he established that anyone who asked for an education should be considered a communist. He especially denied workers and employees access to education because, in his words, "soon there would be no more people willing to work in cleaning tasks."[40]

In July 1932, he established the Social Improvement Fund, and in October, the National Board of Social Improvement, whose main activity was to acquire homes and provide soft loans to farmers to buy them.[41] However, this activity did not bring results expected by the population, since the beneficiaries were much less than what had been projected.[42] Despite the fact that it was described as an agrarian reform, it was not, since the lands were not expropriated, but bought at a price market and sold to a lower one, using national funds that would never be reintegrated and that would pass into the hands of the landowners of the time.[42] Homes were also built to be sold under the same conditions, although this occurred on a smaller scale.[41]

Hernández Martínez modified the Police Law of 1879, prohibiting civilians from carrying firearms, knives, machetes or slits, and making evasion of said ordinance a crime. He also established that those who did not have legal offices or an honest way of living would be persecuted and punished as lazy.[40] The penalty for theft was the amputation of a hand and, in the face of recidivism, the sentence was death by firing squad.[40] He established strong alliances with the Catholic Church, obtaining the benefit of the two monsignors of the time, Monsignor Belloso and Monsignor Chávez y González, who were always present in political executions and who, after the 1932 uprising, offered masses in gratitude for the military victory.[40]

In military matters, he strengthened the professionalization of officers through military study scholarships, especially to Italy. He financed the construction of a war tank, armed with six heavy machine guns.[36] On 24 April 1938, Eberhardt Bohnstedt, a Wehrmacht general, was appointed as director of the Salvadoran military school.[43]

In 1939, he called the Constituent Assembly to draft and ratify a new constitution, the main novelty of which was the inclusion of the female vote under some conditions of social origin and level of education.[44]

In 1943, Hernández Martínez tried to increase the export tax rates to obtain higher income for El Salvador which broke the relationship he had with the oligarchs.[45]

World War II[]

President Hernández Martínez with the Italian ambassador.

The advent of the Second World War meant an increase in exports to the United States and the improvement of the Salvadoran economy. This allowed Hernández Martínez to carry out some social reforms and a slight redistribution of land through an agrarian program.[36]

Hernández Martínez was very attracted to the successes of the European fascist governments, especially Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. In 1938 he appointed Eberhardt Bohnstedt, a general of the Wehrmacht, as director of the Salvadoran military school.[14][36][43] In addition, he opened diplomatic relations with the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco and was one of the first to recognize his government.[36][14] In addition, he gave diplomatic recognition to the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and the German puppet state of the Slovak Republic.[36] Trade with Germany and Italy increased from 1935-1937 and El Salvador bought several planes from the Italian government for the Salvadoran Air Force since American planes were too expensive.[14] El Salvador sent military officers to Italy for military training. From 1930 up until 1940, El Salvador imported and exported more to Germany that the United States.[14] Fascist influence was so abundant in El Salvador that schoolchildren were taught to do the Roman salute and 300 men imitating the Italian Blackshirts marching in the streets on San Salvador following the Italian entry into World War II in June 1940.[14]

However, under pressure from the United States, the primary coffee buyer of El Salvador, he had to abandon his sympathies and agreed to align itself alongside the Allies of World War II on 8 December 1941 after the Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbor.[36] Likewise, German and Italian residents in El Salvador were expropriated of their lands and were sent to concentration camps, which earned them diplomatic recognition from the United States.[40]

That change in his foreign policy, as well as the repression against the communists and opponents of his government, allowed him to obtain greater support from the United States. However, the situation changed due to Hernández Martínez's refusal to receive 3,000 US soldiers to protect the Panama Canal. The United States placed troops in the countries near the Canal, except in El Salvador, given the presidential refusal. The reason Hernández Martínez gave for rejecting the American request was that, since the arriving troops would have a percentage of black soldiers, there was an imminent risk that they would reproduce in El Salvador and that they would fill El Salvador with children of color.[36]

El Salvador sent no men to fight on the battlefield during the war but it did send men to perform maintenance on the Panama Canal.[14] During WWII, Colonel José Castellanos Contreras saved 40,000 Jews in Central Europe by providing them political asylum and fake Salvadoran passports.[46]

Criticisms[]

The Civic Directory of El Salvador of 2 December 1931. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez is the 6th from the left.

Hernández Martínez's government was widely criticized by various sectors, focusing mainly on his theosophical practices and their repercussions on his actions as ruler. First, the general's belief that the state must have absolute power over individuals led him to convert the state as an individual controller, endowing him with extra-constitutional power over national life, giving him control of the armed forces.[47] He had strict control of the mass media, aligning them in favor of his regime or simply closing them in the face of occasional resistance. Furthermore, he was criticized for the exile of the most important thinkers and artists of the time who did not agree with his government.[47] The harshness of his measures and mainly his contempt for the quality of the human being led him to commit acts that would mark a precedent of violence, a prelude to what would come decades later during the military dictatorship. The media handling extended to the political field, creating conditions so that even abroad he was considered a democratic president. For example, he placed the Communist Party election booth right in front of the Hotel Nuevo Mundo, which housed large numbers of foreigners, especially Americans. The intention was clear: to create an image of democracy to be recognized by the rest of the world as a legitimate president. He went to the lengths of holding presidential elections in 1935, 1939, and 1944, and legislative elections in 1936, 1939, 1944, however, he was the only candidate, he always won 100% of the vote, and his National Pro Patria Party was the only legal political party.[5]

However, the main criticism of his government is the excessive use of force. He used unorthodox repressive methods characterized by violence and disrespect for the integrity of the individual.[47]

End of Hernández Martínez's Government[]

When Hernández Martínez raised the export tax in 1943 the weary distrust among oligarchic landowning elites over his modest land reform efforts and eccentric ways turned to conspiracy and opposition. He openly violated the constitution by declaring that he would serve a third term without holding elections.

Palm Sunday Coup[]

Main article: Palm Sunday Coup

In response, an armed revolt broke out on Palm Sunday, 2 April 1944, led by intellectuals, business leaders and disloyal segments of the military. While top members of the regime leadership were at home for Holy Week, the strategic First Infantry and the Second Artillery regiments of San Salvador and Santa Ana garrison seized the state radio station, took control of the Air Force and seized Santa Ana’s police headquarters and telegraph offices. Santa Ana was bombed from the air as civilians below rallied, overthrew and replaced their city council. However, Gen. Hernández Martínez was able to put down the rebellion with his remaining obedient military units. Martial law, including a police curfew, was declared in effect and savagely enforced. Reprisals against rebels and suspected rebels began right away and lasted for weeks in a highly public and distressing campaign of repression.[48] More than 100 civilians were shot dead in street demonstrations by the army.[49]

Strike of Fallen Arms[]

Soon after, however, in May 1944, Hernández Martínez was deposed by the Strike of Fallen Arms led by students. Their strategy was to avoid direct confrontation with the regime's soldiers by simply, passively, non-violently staying home. During this massive political action, Salvadoran society was completely paralysed until he was deposed. Doctors and other professionals joined on May 5, successfully turning it into a general strike. On May 7 police fired into a group of youths, and fatally struck a 17-year-old who happened to be a U.S. citizen. This increased the pressure on the regime.[50]

After attempting to negotiate a later departure date, Hernández Martínez resigned on 9 May and had Andrés Ignacio Menéndez appointed as Provisional President. By May 11 the strike was over and he had fled to exile in Guatemala. The revolt then spread to Guatemala, where the similar military leader Jorge Ubico was also forced to resign by 1 July.

Death[]

After being deposed, Hernández Martínez traveled to exile in Guatemala and then later Honduras where he lived until he was stabbed to death at Hacienda Jamastrán, on 15 May 1966, by his taxi driver, Cipriano Morales,[51] whose father had been murdered by Hernández Martínez's dictatorship. He remains one of the oldest politicians to be assassinated.

Legacy[]

A bust of Hernández Martínez in San Matías, La Libertad, El Salvador.

Much of El Salvador is still divided over the legacy of Hernández Martínez's tenure. While El Salvador had seen economic growth during his leadership and he was admired by the wealthy elite, the country experienced widespread social unrest, most significantly the 1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre, where 25,000 people were sentence to death many just for having indigenous appearance. Those who were captured alive were sent to trial and inevitably sentenced to death. In terms of civil rights, his record was mixed. He expanded voting rights to women for the first time, enacted some social security programs, and attempted to manage the economy, in contrast to the economic policies of Liberal regimes that had ruled El Salvador since the 1870s. But his regime censored the media, banned political opposition, abolished local elections, rigged national elections, and brutally killed thousands of dissidents and innocents.

Hernández Martínez was a believer in fringe occultism and was a theosophist.[9] When a smallpox epidemic broke out in San Salvador he had colored lights hung around the city, in the belief that this would cure the disease.[39] He also believed in reincarnation and once said that "it is a greater crime to kill an ant than a man, for when a man dies he becomes reincarnated, while an ant dies forever."

During the country's civil war from 1979 to 1992, an extreme right-wing death squad named after him, called the "Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Anti-Communist Brigade," operated in the country and claimed responsibility for the assassination of many Christian Democrat and Marxist politicians as well as innocent civilians in El Salvador in 1980.[52]

Awards and decorations[]

 Belgium

  • Grand Crest Ordre de Leopold.png Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

 Guatemala

  • Order of the Quetzal - Grand Cross (Guatemala) - ribbon bar.png Grand Cross of the Order of the Quetzal

 Manchukuo

  • Manchukuo Order of the Illustrious Dragon ribbon.svg Grand Cordon of the Order of the Illustrious Dragon
  • Manchukuo Order of the Pillars of the State ribbon.svg Grand Cordon of the

Spain Spain

  • Order of Isabella the Catholic - Sash of Collar.svg Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  • ESP Cruz de Guerra pasador.svg Cruz de Guerra for officials and subofficials

See also[]

  • Military dictatorship in El Salvador

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