The puzzling election loss of Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala’s first indigenous presidential candidate. By Marc Lacey Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu scores murder of Guillermo Ovalle, ...

Days after Guatemala’s former U.S.-backed dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, was convicted of genocide, we’re joined by a woman largely responsible for making sure he was brought to justice. Rigoberta ...

Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú (photo by Carlos Rodriguez/Agencia de Noticias Andes, CC BY-NC 2.0) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Watch Part 2 of our conversation with Rigoberta Menchú following Monday’s sentencing of former Guatemalan police chief Pedro García Arredondo.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rigoberta Menchú Tum, right, in a scene from " La Llorona." (Shudder) Laced with cautious optimism, the firm voice of Guatemalan ...

The New York Times reports that Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu finished sixth of fourteen candidates in Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, getting a mere 3 percent of the vote. "The ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Rigoberta Menchu lost her parents and two brothers during Guatemala's ...

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Laced with cautious optimism, the firm voice of Guatemalan icon and Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum proclaims her conviction that Indigenous people can harness filmmaking as social catalyst.

Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9, 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture. In her early years she helped with the family farm work, either in ...