The Return of Lencho

LENCHO a 30yearold artist and graffiti writer is back in Guatemala after living a decade in New York Eager to bring artistic expression to his home country silenced by over 30 years of terror Lencho assembles a collective of artists to produce public art projects of social impact As its first activity the group organizes an art festival in Rabinal a small indigenous village in the Guatemalan highlands The groups work comes of interest to the director of a secret social cleansing program of the national police designed to quash dissension and organizing among the youth As Lencho labors to coordinate the music poetry and muralism components of the festival he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of the death of his father a journalist during the civil war El Regreso de Lencho portrays one mans journey to selfknowledge and action can Guatemala do the same