NISGUA Founding Convention & National Network Created

After a founding conference in 1980, existing local solidarity communities that had sprung up across the U.S. to shelter Guatemalans fleeing violence and to organize policy change came together to form the NISGUA national network to increase their political leverage and focus their advocacy potential through joint campaigns.

📸 1. Poster from NISGUA’s founding conference: “En la lucha de los pueblos centroamericanos está en juego el futuro de América Latina.” In English, Latin America’s future is at stake in the struggle of Central American peoples. Courtesy of Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi & Todd Kolze / Guatemala News and Information Bureau (GNIB).
2. Copy of a diagram of the structure of NISGUA upon its founding.