Guerrilla Army of the Poor
In January 1980 a group of K'iche' and Ixil peasant farmers, recruited for a march to Guatemala City to protest the kidnapping and murder of peasants in Uspantán, in Quiché department, by elements of the Guatemalan Army. The peasants were organized, guided and joined by members of the "Comité de Unidad Campesina" (Committee of Peasant Unity) and a radical student organization known as the Robin García Revolutionary Student Front, groups associated with the "Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres" (EGP, the Guerrilla Army of the Poor). The protesters were denied a hearing in Congress and their legal adviser was assassinated. On January 28, they briefly took over two radio stations.