Abstract

VAZQUEZ MEDELES, Juan Carlos. From demons to chingamuceros . Representation of the PGT-PC in Guatemala. Latinoamérica [online]. 2016, n.62, pp.163-193. ISSN 2448-6914.

The dynamics of the internal armed conflict in Guatemala as the political project of Guatemalan Labor Party, originated ruptures within the same. One of them, raised in 1978, gave rise to Guatemalan Labor Party-Communism Party, which it achieved from your own project, forming a representation inside the revolutionary ideology, which broke with the guerrillero enmontañado. Thus, in a path of the concepts that anticommunism was settling in his struggle against communism, we will step to the configuration of the chingamucero, name assigned to the militants of the new communist organization of Guatemala, through the images that have been recovered to unveil the experience of this group and his presence in such conlfict.

Keywords : Chingamuceros; Guatemalan Labor Party; Communism; Guatemala.