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Rigoberta Menchu
Gesselye Mejia
H English, Period 1
12-10-12
(Rigoberta Menchu,
AP Images)
Early Life
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Born January 9, 1959She was born to a poor family il Laj Chimel, Guatemala
She worked on coffee plantations.
In her autobiography it said how trucks took families to
the plantations to work.
They would often ride for 24 hrs and often without breaks.
Davis, Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchú." Great Lives from
History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman.
10 vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06
Dec. 2012.
Work and Government
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In the capital, Guatemala City twelve year old Menchu
worked as a servant, her employers starved and abused her
they also forbade her to wear her traditional Guatemalan
dress.
While Menchu was growing up government was demanding
that people would sale their land for a pittance.
Soldier's would attack dissenter's and destroyed homes.
Menchu's father Vicente tried to organize the Maya in the
government objections, he was imprisoned and nearly torture
Davis,
Anita
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History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman.
10 vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06 Dec.
2012.
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Menchu's Family
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Menchu's father continued working to develop the Committee for
Peasant Unity. They went undercover in 1978.
Soldier's captured Menchu's brother Patrocinio, in 1979 they
tortured him day and night for sixteen days.
They showed the locals his wounds. They dowsed him with
gasoline, set him on fire, and watched him burn to death in public.
Menchu's father Vicente died along with many others during a
protest.
Then soldier's kidnapped Menchu's mother they tortured her.
Many Guatemalans went into hiding.
Menchu escaped to Mexico in 1981, but her worked continued in
Davis,
Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchú." Great Lives from
Guatemala.
History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman.
10 vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06 Dec.
2012.
Lifes Work
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In 1982 she traveled to Europe and the United States talking
about the atrocities in Guatemala.
Although, some critics said that Menchu had participated in
some violent acts over the years.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee awarded her the
Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1992.
The Presentation indicated Menchu had brought humanity to
a brutal world through her political and social world.
Only after the presentation that the Guatemalan Government
allowed Guatemalans to return to their land.
Davis, Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchú." Great Lives from
History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman. 10
vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06 Dec.
2012.
The Nobel Peace Prize
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Menchu considered the Nobel Peace Prize a recognition of
the fragmented lives of the indigenous people.
She used the the prize to continue her struggle for peace and
human rights.
Not everyone was rejoiced after she go awarded.
Some would say that her autobiography was filled with
fabrications and hoaxes.
Davis, Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchú." Great Lives from
History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman. 10
vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06 Dec.
2012.
Death Threats
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Menchu Was targeted with death threats, particulary in
Guatemala. And guards were posted at her residence in
Mexico City.
Some argued that she had stopped no war and had worked
little before writing her memoirs.
Critics called for the revocation of Menchu's Peace
Prize.They did not do that.
Davis, Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchú." Great Lives from
History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman.
10 vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06 Dec.
2012.
Her Significance
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In the face of the death threats she did not stop advocating
peace and nonviolence.
She condemned the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and expressed her
condolences.
In 2007, she announced the formation of an indigenous
political party named Winaq but she had no time to register
itself as a party before the elections.
The elections held in September she ran as candidate of the
encounter for Guatemala Party. She lost the election.
Davis, Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchú." Great Lives from
History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman. 10
vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06 Dec.
2012.
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Peace
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Menchu workers very hard to bring world attention to the
hardships and violence suffered by indigenous people of
Guatemala.
The dictorial government had massacred thousand of its
people, especially indigenous peasants.
Their struggles became international news, among scholars
and activists.
Despite the criticism on her autobiography she still remained
a prominent of world peace and earned many accolades.
Davis, Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchú." Great Lives from
History: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert F. Gorman. 10
vols. Salem Press, 2008. Salem History Web. 06 Dec. 2012.
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Offers
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In 2004 President Oscar Berger offered Menchu a Position In
Guatemala's National Government.
She agreed to help oversee implementation of 1996 accords to
end civil war.
Booth, John A "Menchu, Rigoberta. "World Book Student.
World Book 2012. Web. 28 Nov. 2012.
Menchu's Book and
Indigenous people Rights
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Many said that her book was inaccurate.
Menchu said that she had mixed other indigenous experiences
into her book.
It represented the story of Guatemalan people rather than one
individual.
Indigenous people in Guatemala eventually gained their
rights.
Booth, John A "Menchu, Rigoberta. "World Book Student.
World Book 2012. Web. 28 Nov. 2012.
Catholic Church Activities
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She was involved in social reforms in the Catholic Church.
She also became prominent in the women's rights movement
when still only a teenager.
Simon, Jean-Marie. Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal
Tyranny. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987.
Rigoberta
Menchu,
AP
Images
Works Cited
Booth, John A "Menchu, Rigoberta."World Book, 2012. Web. 28 Nov.
2012 <worldbookonline.com>
Davis, Anita Price. "Rigoberta Menchu." Great Lives from History: The
Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert T. Gorman. 10 vols Salem Press,
2008. Salem History Web. 30 Nov. 2012
<http://history.salempress.com>
Simon, Jean-Marie. Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny. New