Huberto Alvarado Arellano (1927–1974) was a Guatemalan poet, essayist, and communist political figure.
At the same time, Alvarado engaged in notable cultural and literary production, mainly through the Saker-ti ("Dawn" in Kaqchikel) group, of which he had been a founder.
Saker-Tí was a collective of young writers committed to democratic values and to revaluing Guatemala's native cultural legacy.
[1] On 17 June 1954, the democratically elected government of reformist Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown in a CIA engineered coup d'état that ended the Guatemalan Revolution.
[2][3] After the fall of the democratic government, one of the first measures passed by the new regime was the banning of the Party of Labor.