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Article: Rigoberta Menchu. (1992 Nobel Peace laureate) (Interview)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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Rigoberta Menchu received the Nobel Peace Prize in December, at age thirty-three, for promoting the rights of indigenous peoples. A Quiche Maya Indian from Chimel, Guatemala, she grew up watching her people brutalized by the Guatemalan military during that country's civil war, the longest-running leftist insurgency in the Americas. In her 1983 book, I, Rigoberta Menchu, she describes her life in poverty, her work as a catechist, and her growing understanding of injustice and resistance as she watched family members die: her sixteen-year-old brother flayed and executed with other suspected "subversives" in the plaza of a small town, her mother raped and tortured for days by ...
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