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SUMMARY:1932 El Salvador Forbidden History
LOCATION:Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Aust
 in DMC 5.102\, 300 W. Dean Keeton St.\, Austin\, TX 78712
DESCRIPTION:Screening of Ama: Memory of Time followed by a conversation wi
 th Salvadoran poet and filmmaker Daniel Flores y Ascencio\n\nAMA - THE ME
 MORY OF TIME - A documentary film based in the life and death of Jose Fel
 iciano Ama\, a spiritual grandmaster\, leader and chief of the Izalcos\, 
 a Nahuat-Pipil Nation in western El Salvador. This is the story of his fa
 mily and survivors of the 1932 genocide. Don Juan Ama\, nephew of Jose Fe
 liciano\, tells the story in an attempt to clear his uncle's name from hi
 storical inaccuracies and restore the family and\ntribe's dignity.\n\nFor
  decades Salvadorans have engaged in an intense debate over "La Matanza"\
 , a series of massacres that killed an estimated 30.000 of Indigenous peo
 ple in January 1932. Conducted under the leadership of General Maximilian
 o Hernandez Martinez\, the event marked the beginning of a 13 years bruta
 l regime and a paved the way for military dominance for the next several 
 decades. The event also marked a dramatic shift for El Salvador in an era
  when the Central American nations had conducted the first democratic ele
 ctions. For Indigenous people\, "La Matanza"\, was the last chapter in a 
 series of polices and reforms beginning in the 1920's that sought to priv
 atize ancestral/communal lands as El Salvador transitioned from an indigo
  to a coffee producing economy.\n\nDaniel Flores y Ascencio is a Salvador
 an poet\, filmmaker\, visual artist\, and human rights activist affiltiat
 ed by direct descent to the Maya Aguachapaneco/Nonualka . He is known \n\
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