[citation needed] On 22 January 1932, indigenous and communist peasants staged a revolution in El Salvador against the regime of President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.
[2] The rebels took over large portions of western El Salvador and killed an estimated 100 people during the first day.
[citation needed] He was forced to flee back to El Salvador in 1954, however, due to the United States-backed coup which brought Carlos Castillo Armas to power.
[1] In 1988, Mármol recounted his escape from Guatemala in an interview with William Bollinger and Georg M Gugelberger: I was number five on the execution list.
The police, of course, call me a red phantom because they could never catch or kill me.Mármol participated in a steel workers' strike against the government of Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo.