lunes, 5 de octubre de 2009

HEROES TWO





Rigoberta Menchú Tum (9 January 1959 Uspantán, El Quiche, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan indigenous leader and human rights defender, member of the Quiché-Maya. It's Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. It has been highlighted by his leadership of the social struggles nationally and internationally. Since very little known injustices, discrimination, racism and exploitation they are subjected to hundreds of thousands or even millions of indigenous people living in extreme poverty in Guatemala. During armed violence his father, his mother, his brother and several members of their community were killed by the army. On February 12, 2007 announced that he would run for president in Guatemala's presidential election of 2007. His hopes of being elected and being the first woman to hold the office in your country, the first Indian in Latin America after Mexico's Benito Juárez and the current Bolivian President Evo Morales, and also be the third Nobel prize in the world occupy the presidency of a nation after Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and Shimon Peres, could not be realized. In the general election of September 9, 2007 was 3% of the vote. On December 20 arrives in the city of Campeche, specifically in the town of Tenabo to receive the medal of merit "Santiago Pacheco Cruz" because of his defense of indigenous peoples..

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