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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dawn Engle is co-founder of PeaceJam, an international education program based in Arvada that brings young people into contact with Nobel Peace Prize winners ...

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 a major victory for human rights activists, a Guatemalan court has returned a guilty verdict in the Spanish Embassy massacre of 1980. On Monday, the court found former police chief Pedro García ...

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 ...

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 ...