Biography
Augustin Marti was a Central American revolutionary arrested by U.S. immigration officers after landing at San Pedro.
Central American revolutionary Augustin Marti was arrested by U.S. immigration officers after landing at San Pedro following earlier expulsion from El Salvador and refusals of admission elsewhere. The January 23, 1931 Daily Worker reports his delivery to the S.S. Venezuela, which sailed January 14, and alleges its officers refused an immigration officer’s attempt to recover him after the ILD sought habeas corpus. The ILD demanded asylum. The paper says he was en route, possibly to El Salvador or Nicaragua, and does not establish completed arrival, execution or an exact U.S. arrest day. Source: https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n021-NY-jan-23-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
A captioned report in the June 1931 Labor Defender, printed page 118, identifies Agustin Marti as an International Red Aid representative and former Nicaraguan liberation-army general. It reports that, after expulsion and refusals of entry in Central America, the United States and Panama, he returned to Salvador and was imprisoned there and undertook a hunger strike. This is the magazine’s attributed follow-up to his asylum and removal history; it does not establish exact arrival, admission, release, or completed custody duration, or independently identify who caused the subsequent Salvador imprisonment.
Portrait: unenhanced native crop from the individually captioned photograph on the same page. Original issue, printed page 118 (PDF page 14).
Leon Vivaldi’s March 1932 Labor Defender account of the January uprising in El Salvador reports that revolutionary leaders Marti, Zapata and Luna were executed by firing squad. This adds attributed later Salvadoran history to the existing U.S. immigration record. The article describes foreign warships but also says no troops were landed; it does not establish an individual U.S. order for Marti’s execution. No new U.S. custody interval or exact death day follows from this account.
Vivaldi’s June 1932 account reports that Marti, Zapata and Luna were executed on February 1 at the General Cemetery in El Salvador. Diario Co Latino’s republication of its February 1, 1932 eyewitness report independently identifies Agustín Farabundo Martí and confirms the date. This supplies a biographical death date, without adding a U.S. custody episode or attributing the execution to a U.S. order.
Sources: Labor Defender, June 1932, original PDF page 10; Diario Latino, February 1, 1932, reproduced by Diario Co Latino in 2023.
