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While in exile, she published her autobiography, which highlighted the Guatemalan Civil War and the violence committed against her family and the K'iche' people. [ 24 ] In 1996, Rigoberta Menchu became a UN Ambassador for the world's Indigenous peoples [ 23 ] and helped promote the first International Decade of the World's Indigenous People. [ 25 ]
Tlatelolco massacre: October 2, 1968 Mexico City 44-400 Government troops massacred between 44 (officially) and 400 (according to human rights activists, CIA documents and independent investigations) students 10 days before the 1968 Summer Olympics taking place in Mexico City, and then tried to wash the blood away, along with evidence of the ...
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born 9 January 1959) [1] is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, [2] and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. . Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights international
The killings occurred on the evening of Oct 1, just hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated as Mexico's fi Mexico military's role in migrant massacre comes under sharp scrutiny Skip to main ...
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Illustration of a member of Los Halcones beating with a bamboo stick a demonstrator fallen on the ground, in the repression of 10 June 1971 in Mexico City.. The Halcones (Spanish: Falcons) were a Mexican paramilitary group created during the tail end of the 1960s and led by Colonel Manuel Díaz Escobar, the deputy director of the General Services of the Federal District Department.
A 14-year-old boy from Chicago is in a coma after he, his father and uncle were shot on a family vacation in Mexico, according to local reports and a fundraiser for the family.