By: Mitchell Worobij

Rigoberta Menchu

Born January 9, 1959.Born in Chimel.

A small town in the north-central Guatemalan province of Quiché.

Born to a poor Indian peasant family.

Birth

A house in Chimel

She is an activistWas involved in the pharmaceutical industryRan for president of Guatemala in 2007Member of Peace Jam

Career

Her careers

She became famous because she fought for the rights of all the people living in Guatemala.

One other possible reason is for her books.She has written bibliographies about her life in

Guatemala.

How did she become famous?

Rigoberta’s books

She had three brothers and had a father and a mother.

Two of her brothers died while she was only 8.

Then her father, mother, and brother died from torture, rape, and one was burned alive.

Her family worked on a plantation in her early years.

What about her family?

Rigoberta is now the only person in her family.

Her brothers and parents die for many different reasons.

She was awarded the Nobel prize for two reasons.

One was her work for social justiceFair treatment and distribution of advantages,

assets, and benefits among all members of a society.

Second was her work for the rights of indigenous people.

What did she do to win the Nobel prize?

Rigoberta winning the Nobel peace prize.

Her books were famous for several reasons. First, they were about her life.

She also wrote about how other people around her were like.

Second, It tells how she felt about everything that was happening and what it was like to go through it.

Why were her books so famous?

More of her books

Unfortunately, no.When she ran two of the members in her

party were killed while most were threatened.After the election, she gave a message of

peace.

Did she win when she ran for President?

Rigoberta Menchu For President!

Most of her writing in her books is true.Some people like David Stoll, who thoroughly

investigated Menchu’s story, say some of it was false

He even claims that her autobiography, which won her the Nobel peace prize, has false claims.

Was everything she said in her books true?

Did she really lie?

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoberta_Mench%C3%BA

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/menchu.html

http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=r_menchu

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/heroines/index.html

Sites

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