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Rigoverta Menchu

  • BORN
    1959 BCE

    BORN

    She was born in Guatemala
  • Father
    1959 BCE

    Father

    Was his father Vicente one of 37 persons Between that was counting himself the Spanish consul Jaime Ruiz del Árbol That the State police of Guatemala burned live with white phosphorus in the Massacre of the Spanish embassy in the city of Guatemala.
  • Family

    Family

    his father was an indigenous peasant activist in the defense of land and rights in his village and his mother was an indigenous midwife
  • She created the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation.

    She created the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation.

  • To escape repression she went into exile in Mexico

    To escape repression she went into exile in Mexico

  • She wrote her biography in 1983

    She wrote her biography in 1983

  • She returned to Guatemala

    She returned to Guatemala

    To protected by his international prestige, to continue denouncing the injustices
  • Nobel peace prize

    Nobel peace prize

    She was the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize and the first Indian to win that prize.
  • She collaborate with the pharmaceutical Mexican industry doing  a medicines at low cost

    She collaborate with the pharmaceutical Mexican industry doing a medicines at low cost

  • She tried to be the first women and the 5 indigenous to win the elections

    She tried to be the first women and the 5 indigenous to win the elections

    But she was the fifthy