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Nobel winner Menchu eyes Guatemala presidency
Feb 22 2007, Pankaj

In 1992, a Guatemalan peasant named Rigoberta Mench received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in pressing the civil rights claims of her country’s indigenous peoples. Latin America faces heightened social change in the early 21st century and this...

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