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1959 BCE
BORN
She was born in Guatemala -
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
his father was an indigenous peasant activist in the defense of land and rights in his village and his mother was an indigenous midwife -
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She created the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation.
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To escape repression she went into exile in Mexico
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She wrote her biography in 1983
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She returned to Guatemala
To protected by his international prestige, to continue denouncing the injustices -
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
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She tried to be the first women and the 5 indigenous to win the elections
But she was the fifthy
