El Pueblo was the organ of Frente Obrero ('Workers Front'), the trade union wing of the Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement (MAP-ML).
[9][4][12][8][13] Frente Obrero had defied government orders for restraint by organizing strikes at the San Antonio sugar mills and Monterrosa plantations.
Wallace, Cuadra, and two Frente Obrero leaders (Isidro et al. Enríquez) were charged by the Masaya Court of Appeals on the grounds of articles published in El Pueblo issue no.
One hundred fifty-nine was published on January 5, 1980 (which had argued that the Sandinista Front had reduced the price of coffee as retaliation of the plantation workers' militancy and that the government was not fulfilling its promises of land redistribution) and in issue number.
One hundred seventy-nine was published on January 19, 1980 (which criticized the discourse of the national literacy campaign, arguing in favor of slogans calling for the end of latifundio).