Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9, 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture. In her early years she helped with the family farm work, either in ...

Rigoberta Menchú Tum met all these mentors’in San Francisco in the early ‘80s. Now a renowned human rights activist, she was 23 at the time, and it was about a decade before she won the 1992 Nobel ...

Tucked into the fog-draped mountains of central Guatemala, the town of Uspantan, population 3,413, has three cheap motels, a football field, a towering church and a Ferris wheel. It is the sort of ...

México, 11 dic (EFE).México, 11 dic (EFE). — La indígena guatemalteca y premio nobel de la paz de 1992, Rigoberta Menchú, fue nombrada hoy “investigadora extraordinaria” por la Universidad Nacional ...

The New York Times reports that Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu finished sixth of fourteen candidates in Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, getting a mere 3 percent of the vote. "The ...

Rigoberta Menchú, spokesperson of the Guatemalan indigenous population and, by extension, of all marginalized groups in the continent, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1992 for her contribution to peace ...

Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú (photo by Carlos Rodriguez/Agencia de Noticias Andes, CC BY-NC 2.0) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, visited two at-risk Denver communities yesterday, not to preach peace but to preach “harmony.” For Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual teachers ...

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342) and index. Contents Story of all poor Guatemalans -- Vicente Menchu and his village: Uspantan as an agricultural frontier -- Struggle for Chimel -- ...

The puzzling election loss of Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala’s first indigenous presidential candidate. By Marc Lacey Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu scores murder of Guillermo Ovalle, ...