Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kutevera kutanga kweHondo yeVanhu
, akabatana neboka reGuatemalan Workers Party (Partido Guatemalteco de los Trabajadores kana PGT). Munguva iyi akasungwa, akatongwa, ndokuiswa mujeri, pashure pacho akapedza makore manomwe ari muutapwa muMexico. Akadzokera kuGuatemala muna 1971 uye akabatsira kuumba Revolutionary Organization of the People in Arms (Organización Revolucionaria del Pueblo en Armas, ORPA). Akarwa pasi pe "nom de guerre" Gaspar Ilom, iyo yaakatora kubva kumunhu mu "Hombres de maíz", imwe yenhau dzababa vake. Apo mapoka mana emagandanga, kusanganisira aya maviri, akabatanidzwa kuti asike Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, URNG) muna 1982, Asturias akabuda semumwe wevatungamiriri vana vekutungamira kwayo. Akanga ari mumwe wevatungamiri vasina kutora chikamu mukusaina chibvumirano cherunyararo chakawanikwa nehurumende mukutanga kwema1990.