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Rigoberta menchu
Rigoberta Menchú was born in La Chimel, Quiche , Guatemala. Her´s parent´s name are Vicente Menchú Pérez y Juana Tum Kótoja.
She received a primary school education at a catholic school -
It started to work
At the age of five she began to work in coffee plantations, in conditions so terrible that were the reason of the death of her brothers and friends, as well as of the repression of the one that was a victim his community on the part of landowners and members of the army of Guatemala. -
She founded several organizations
In 1979, she was a member founder of the CUC (Committee of Rural Unit) and of the RUOG (Unitary Representation of the Guatemalan Opposition), of which it formed a part of her direction until 1992. -
It went out of her´s country
In 1981 Rigoberta Menchú went into exile in Mexico due to the violence that she received to get justice for the death of her family -
International recognition
Menchú gained international prominence in 1983 with her widely translated book I, Rigoberta Menchú, in which she tells the story of her impoverished youth and recounts in horrifying detail the torture-murders of her brother and mother -
She collaborated with united nations
In 1991, she took part in the preparation of the declaration of the rights of the indigenous peoples on the part of the United Nations. -
She won the Prize Nobel
The Nobel Prize was granted him in recognition of his fight by the social justice and etno-cultural reconciliation based on the respect to the rights of the aborigens, coinciding with the fifth centenary of the arrival of Colon to America, and with the declaration of 1992 as International Year of the Indian Peoples. With the financial resources that it received of this award there established the foundation Rigoberta Menchú Tum, with headquarters in Guatemala and offices in Mexico and New York -
Autobiography
In 1999, the anthropologist David Stoll, expert in Guatemala, published a book so called I, Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor guatemalans (' I, Rigoberta Menchú, and the history of all the Guatemalan poor '), where it was holding that a part of Menchú's biography is false or is distorted. -
Pharmacist
In 2003, it interfered with the pharmaceutical Mexican industry as chairwoman of the company " Health for All " (Guatemalan subsidiary of the " Similar Drugstores ", called now " Drugstores of the Doctor Simi "), with the purpose of providing generic medicines to low prices. -
Peace Accord
Menchú continued to earn praise for bringing international attention to the situation in Guatemala. In 2004 she accepted President Óscar Berger’s offer to help implement the country’s peace accords. -
It took part as ambassador
In 2006, it took part as ambassador of good will of the UNESCO -
results of the first electoral return
In the results of the first electoral return, in September, 2007, her party, Meeting for Guatemala obtained in the benches for candidates for President and Vice-president 3.09 % of the votes. This result placed to his candidacy in the seventh place. After this electoral event, the political agreement between WINAQ and Meeting for Guatemala dissolved, following every project individual agendas. -
Candidacy to the presidency
Rigoberta Menchú announced his candidacy to the presidency of Guatemala with the political party Find for Guatemala, of leftist ideology, in the general choices of September 9, 2007. -
Candidacy to the presidency
On May 7, 2011, the alliance partial Wide Front Guatemala integrated by the indigenous party WINAQ, the Revolutionary National Guatemalan Unit (URNG), Alternative New Nation (ANN), and the committee pre-formation of the party Movement New Republic (MNR) proclaimed Rigoberta since candidata presidential for the choices of September 11, 2011 in Guatemala.9 It stayed in the sixth position with 3,27 % of the valid issued votes.