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After examining Guatemalan archival material and conducting interviews with survivors of the events, Stoll concluded many of the claims Menchu makes in the book were either distorted or completely fabricated...
...January, Middlebury College anthropologist David Stoll released a book called Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans that reexamines and challenges many of Menchu's claims...
...Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, won the Nobel peace Prize in 1992 after this auto-biographical work was published, which details the terrors perpetrated against her family during the Guatemalan insurrection. But since the prize was awarded, the book's authorship and the truth of its accounts have been called into question...
...Menchu's Nobel Prize was never revoked. She still stands by the truth of her account, blaming any problems on Elisabeth Burgos, the Venezuelan anthropologist who transcribed interviews with Menchu and actually wrote the book...
CSPC puts out news analysis publications including Front Page Magazine. The organization's ad claims that many professors still advocate Menchu's viewpoint, ignoring the question of credibility...