Word: rigoberta
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...Jorge Dominguez was not a U.S. born professor, he was not a real Hispanic--bringing up the disturbing possibility that about half the Spanish-speaking community in this country, including the parents of most Latino students, are not "Latino." Gabriel Garcia Marquez is not Latino. Neither is Carlos Fuentes, Rigoberta Menchu, Carlos Salinas de Gotari, Juan Carlos, Fidel Castro, or Guillermo Cabrera Infante...
Tensions have risen in Guatemala since anti-government activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum won the Nobel peace prize last month, the students said...
...Rigoberta Menchu speaks out for America's Indians...
...corn and beans on her parents' tiny plot and traveling with them to the south to work on coffee, cotton and sugar plantations. She did not even learn to speak Spanish until she was 20. But the world learned her story with the 1983 publication of her autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu, which eventually appeared in 11 languages. It tells of Quiche life in the mountains and the domination of the Indians, who make up 60% of the population, by the minority Ladinos, mostly the descendants of the European colonists. Her book recounts, in horrifying detail, the torture and death...
...Rigoberta Menchu, 33, Guatemalan Indian-rights activist whose family was killed in her country's bloody civil war; from Mexico, where she fled in 1981, Menchu has fought against persecution by rightist forces of tens of thousands of Indians. She "stands out as a vivid symbol of peace and reconciliation across ethnic, cultural and social dividing lines," said the citation. (See related story on page...