Background
He was born in 1927 and died in 1974 at the hands of paramilitary death squads.
He was born in 1927 and died in 1974 at the hands of paramilitary death squads.
He was soon named Secretary General of the Guatemalan Alliance of Democratic Youth. Saker-Tí was a collective of young writers committed to democratic values and to revaluing Guatemala"s native cultural legacy. On 17 June 1954, the democratically elected government of reformist Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown in a Central Intelligence Agency engineered coup d"état that ended the Guatemalan Revolution.
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.
Alvarado was then forced into exile, first in Ecuador, and later in Mexico. Alvarado soon returned to Guatemala and managed to live relatively quietly until he was again persecuted and jailed.
An international campaign secured his release and subsequent return to exile in Mexico. Alvarado -who was at this time serving as Secretary General of the Guatemalan Party of Labour (as the Communist Party had been renamed in 1952), after its previous Secretary General had been captured and executed at the orders President
Carlos Aranareturned to his homeland in 1974.
He would not live out the year. On 20 December 1974 Huberto Alvarado was wounded and captured by government forces. The next day, his tortured and mutilated body was dumped on the outskirts of Guatemala City.
His interest in politics stemmed from his experiences in the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944-1945, which were marked by his immersion in leftist politics. The group wound up joining the Communist Party en masse, and in 1949 Alvarado was appointed to the Central Committee of the party, and later to its Political Commission. lieutenant was carried out by reactionary expatriates who entered Guatemala from Honduran territory, with United States support and coordination.