Roque Dalton in La Pájara Pinta, December 1966

Roque Dalton in La Pájara Pinta, December 1966

López Vallecillos and the novelist Manlio Argueta founded La Pájara Pinta in January 1966 as a literary newspaper, but it soon took a more political bent as El Salvador's society grew more polarized in the face of state repression of unions and student and peasant groups. Starting in December 1966, it regularly published work by the exiled revolutionary poet Roque Dalton, who at the time lived in Czechoslovakia. Although Dalton already had an international reputation as a writer, many poets who later joined revolutionary movements first published their poetry in La Pájara Pinta.

Universidad de El Salvador

Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de El Salvador

December 1, 1966

Spanish