Feliciano Ama [SEP] place of death
Feliciano Ama
José Feliciano Ama (1881 – January 28, 1932) was an indigenous peasant leader, a Pipil from Izalco in El Salvador, who participated and died in the 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising.
Ama had his lands taken by the wealthy coffee planting family, the Regalados, during which he was hung by his thumbs and beaten. This was in the context of liberal reforms which stripped the indigenous population of access to their communal lands, which were appropriated by private landowners.
Ama was a day laborer in
Dec 1924 – death 16 July 1930)
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