Grupo Saker-Ti was Guatemala

Guatemala

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n writers group formed in 1947. The name derives from the Cakchiquel language word for "dawn." Because they were left-wing

Left-wing politics

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 ideologues who supported the democratically elected presidents of Guatemala Juan José Arévalo

Juan José Arévalo

Juan José Arévalo Bermejo was the first of the reformist presidents of Guatemala. Preceded by military junta interregnum after a definitive pro-democracy revolt in 1944...

 and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944–1951, and as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954....

, a December 1952 United States Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

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 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

Operation PBSUCCESS

The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala....

 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
• Enrique Palmer (b. 1934), writer and poet.