Indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchu is hoping to become Guatemala's first president from the Maya community. She is standing for a coalition of the indigenous party Winaq, which she founded earlier ...
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, ...
San Diego Union-Tribune: La UNAM nombra a nobel de paz Rigoberta Menchu “investigadora extraordinaria”
Westword: Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Prize winner, inspires Denver one community at a time
Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Prize winner, inspires Denver one community at a time
On the C-SPAN Networks: Rigoberta Menchu Tum is a President for the Indigenous Initiatives for Peace with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Speech. Most ...
Mercury News: Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist, brings message of hope to Oakland
OAKLAND — A Nobel Peace Prize winner visited the Bay Area this week, but she didn’t speak to audiences at UC Berkeley or Stanford. Rigoberta Menchu, a Mayan leader and iconic social justice figure, ...
Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist, brings message of hope to Oakland
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 was born on 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 ...