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The anthropologist elisabeth burgosdebray, herself a latin american woman, conducted a series of interviews with rigoberta menchu. This is the story of rigoberta menchu tum and her life as a native guatemalan struggling to survive amidst poverty, encroaching industrial logging interests, political corruption, and racism. Rigoberta menchu, guatemalan indianrights activist who was awarded the nobel prize for peace in 1992, especially noted for her efforts on behalf of guatemala s indigenous peoples. She learned spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading i, rigoberta menchu. I, rigoberta menchu is one of those books which seems to be overshadowed by controversy.

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