Word: rigoberta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...