Bernardo Alvarado Monzón
Guatemalan communist leader
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Bernardo Alvarado Monzón (8 November 1925 – c. 26 September 1972)[1] was a Guatemalan communist leader. He led the clandestine Guatemalan Party of Labour (PGT), and became its general secretary. Under Alvarado's leadership the party adopted the line of "Popular Revolutionary War."[2]
Alvarado was captured by state forces on 26 September 1972 in Guatemala City. He was killed soon thereafter.[1]
