Rigoberta Menchú Tum met all these mentors’in San Francisco in the early ‘80s. Now a renowned human rights activist, she was 23 at the time, and it was about a decade before she won the 1992 Nobel ...

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, ...

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 ...

México, 11 dic (EFE).México, 11 dic (EFE). — La indígena guatemalteca y premio nobel de la paz de 1992, Rigoberta Menchú, fue nombrada hoy “investigadora extraordinaria” por la Universidad Nacional ...

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 ...

Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, visited two at-risk Denver communities yesterday, not to preach peace but to preach “harmony.” For Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual teachers ...

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 ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, setting off centuries of oppression of native peoples. Five hundred years later, in 1992, Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in ...

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.