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A LUCHAR TODOS CON LAS ARMAS EN LA MANO
Ejercito Guerrillero de Los Pobres Guatemala, ca. 1972-1983
Ejercito Guerrillero de Los Pobres Guatemala. [A LUCHAR TODOS CON LAS ARMAS EN LA MANO]. Guatemala, nd. [ca. 1972-1983]. Double-sided broadside. 33.3 x 21.7 cm. Black ink on orange paper, three small closed tears at edges, each <1.5 cm. Printers marks and streaking visible verso.
The Ejercito Guerrillero de Los Pobres (EGP) was formed by members of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR) after the latter organization was crushed by counter-insurgents in the early 1970s. Although the EGP maintained the FAR’s emphasis on armed revolution, its founders worked from a more general model of liberation theology and built a coalition of indigenous and rural people to create the largest insurgency during the civil war. They were closely aligned with the indigenous farmers’ labor movement, Comité de Unidad Campesina (CUC), best known through the work of Nobel Peace prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, and had connections to the Catholic church.
This broadside is concerned with armed struggle: recto it depicts an army of peasants beating a soldier; verso it memorializes Che Guevara and Luis Turcios Lima, a young FAR commandante murdered in 1966.
Given the clandestine nature of much of the EGP’s printing, primary source EGP material is extremely rare in public collections and the market.
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