During the military government, many atrocities and human rights violations were committed. Under Hernández Martínez, the Army massacred anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 peasants and indigenous people in response to a relatively minor communist uprising in 1932. The event is known in El Salvador as La Matanza, Spanish for "the Massacre." The National Democratic Organization was established by Rivera Carballo in 1965. It was a collection of far-right paramilitaries and death squads that tortured political opponents, intimidated voters, rigged elections, and killed peasants. President Fidel Sánchez Hernández initiated the Football War with Honduras in July 1969 due to the attacked being committed against Salvadorans by Honduras in the country as a result of El Salvador's victory over Honduras in the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In March 1979, Romero Mena ordered his soldiers to crush a group of protestors and strikers in San Salvador and they did so by using live ammunition on the crowds. Despite all the atrocities that were committed, the United States continued to support the military regime due to its anti-communist stance.