Grupo Saker-Ti was a Guatemalan group of writers 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 Adalberto de León Soto (1919-1957), sculptor 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. Jorge Sarmientos (1931-2012), musician
References Guatemalan Literature Webpage Government of Guatemala, Ministry of Culture and Sports Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954 Retrospective Volume, Guatemala, Document 33 U.S. Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency report