Grupo Saker-Ti
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 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, poet
- Huberto Alvarado, poet, politician
- Melvin René Barahona, poet
- , sculptor
- Abelardo Rodas Barrios, poet
- Carlos Navarrete, writer, anthropologist
- Raúl Leiva, poet
- Werner Ovalle López, poet
- Oscar Arturo Palencia, writer
- Roberto Paz y Paz, journalist
- Rafael Sosa, poet
- Olga Martínez Torres,, poet
- José María López Valdizón, writer
- Orlando Vitola, writer
- Enrique Palmer, writer and poet.
* Jorge Sarmientos Musician
