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Rigoberta Menchu Tum (1959- ) is an Indian woman in Guatemala who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her work with the guerillas fighting against the government. She has sought to end the unfair plantation labor and massive genocide of indigenous peoples, all of which are imposed by the American CIA-funded government . Menchu speaks around the world, telling people about the atrocities in her country and encouraging them to join this struggle. The situation is especially terrible because the Guatemalan army is composed of people forced into the killing of their own comrades. Rigoberta has struggled to expose this corruption, as well as fighting her own battle with the loss of her family. She has done so nonviolently, and has made great progress in winning the battle against corruption and genocide.

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