RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ

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🌸Is a Guatemalan indigenous leader and activist, member of the Quiché Maya group, human rights defender, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Prince of Asturias Prize for International Cooperation.

🌸She contributed to the development of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the UN, was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and in 1992 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

🌸Menchú denounced that indigenous women have been subjected to rape and torture for which they live in terror when their communities are occupied by the military and paramilitaries.


Birth January 9, 1959 (age 62),
Occupation: Political activism
Awards: Nobel Peace Prize (1992), Prince of Asturias (1998)
Parents: Juana Tum Kótoja and Vicente Menchú Pérez
Party: Broad Front of Guatemala

Husband Ángel Canil

children Mash Nahual J’a


🌸The undisputed facts of Menchú's story are horrible enough: she did have two brothers who died of malnutrition at an early age, her mother and brother were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the army of their country, and her father was burned alive.

🌸Rigoberta's childhood and youth were marked by the suffering of poverty, racial discrimination, and the violent repression with which the Guatemalan ruling classes tried to contain the peasant's aspirations for social justice.


🌺https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/menchu.htm

🌺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou9EhesDabc




















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