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Human-rights activist Rigoberta Menchu says she plans to run for president of Guatemala this fall. If elected, she will be the country's first female head of state, as well as the first Maya to hold the office. Menchu is no stranger to accomplishment. In 1992 she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work defending indigenous peoples. She wouldn't be the first Peace Prize winner to make the leap to politics...
...though Ríos Montt campaigns on law and order, violent crime and political murders have soared under the frg. Ríos Montt is helped by the blandness of the oligarchy-supported frontrunner, agriculture baron Oscar Berger, whose proposals include using Guatemala's Nobel Peace laureate, Maya Indian Rigoberta Menchú, to promote tourism. Still, if Ríos Montt loses, he also loses immunity from prosecution, which has raised fears that he might resort to desperation tactics to win. Ríos Montt dismisses these. The genocide case "is just a partisan political complaint with no proof...
Said is by no means inventor of the art of the suspect but emblematic personal history. Last year a similar scandal erupted regarding I, Rigoberta Menchu, the autobiography of a Mayan peasant whose story of the horrors wrought by Guatemalan authorities became an international sensation...
True enough. But she says she was there and saw his death. If she wanted to make stuff up, there is an easy way to do so. Call the book a novel (or, as the New Republic's Charles Lane wickedly suggested, We, Rigoberta Menchu). Why didn...
...exonerations take various forms. Some speak of a higher truth: These may not be actual events but, the cause being politically correct, no matter. They are symbolically true. Says Professor Allen Carey-Webb: "We have a higher standard of truth for poor people like Rigoberta Menchu." By which he means a lower standard...