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...Peace Prize to make a political point. Over the years it has found timely reason to honor such powerful figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Willy Brandt, Lech Walesa and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Few of those were more calculatedly controversial than this year's Nobel Peace laureate, Rigoberta Menchu. The award to the 33-year-old Guatemalan Indian-rights activist was announced in the week marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World...
...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...
...Much of the film's success depends on the main character, Rigoberta Menchu. Where did you find her? What about her attracted...