Grupo Saker-Ti
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Grupo Saker-Ti was Guatemalan writers group formed in 1947. The name derives from the Cakchiquel language word for "dawn." Because they were left-wing ideologues who supported the democratically elected presidents of Guatemala Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, a December 1952 United States Central Intelligence Agency report stated that "one of the oldest and most consistently prominent of the (Communist) front groups is Grupo Saker-Ti, an organization formed by militant young intellectuals associated with the leftist-nationalist Revolution of 1944."
The movement disbanded and many of its members fled Guatemala following the 1954 Operation PBSUCCESS that overthrew the government.
Grupo Saker-Ti members included:
- Julio Fausto Aguilera (b. 1929), poet
- Huberto Alvarado (1927-1974), poet, politician
- Melvin René Barahona (1931-1965), poet
- Abelardo Rodas Barrios (1930-1988), poet
- Carlos Navarrete (b. 1931), writer, anthropologist
- Raúl Leiva (1916-1975), poet
- Werner Ovalle López (1928-1970), poet
- Oscar Arturo Palencia (1932-1981), writer
- Roberto Paz y Paz (1927-2004), journalist
- Rafael Sosa (b. 1928), poet
- Olga Martínez Torres, (b. 1927), poet
- José María López Valdizón (1929-1975), writer
- Orlando Vitola (1922-1952), writer
