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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
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a video of a truck full of bodies recently found in Mexico. Screenshot from X Verdict: False The video is from 2018. Fact Check: Mexican Drug ...
Mexicans were left wondering Monday what happened to about a dozen men who were seen lined up against a wall by drug cartel gunmen toting assault rifles. In a video apparently shot by a resident ...
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 ...
BAVISPE, Mexico, Nov 6 (Reuters) - After watching gunmen shoot dead his mother and two brothers, 13-year-old Devin Langford hid six surviving siblings in nearby bushes and walked for miles in a ...
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 ]
On 5 November, Mexican authorities announced the arrest of a suspect in relation to the massacre, but reported the next day that the suspect was not involved. However, some authorities in Mexico have claimed that the massacre was perpetrated by the newly formed Los Jaguares cartels, an offshoot of the Sinaloa drug cartel. [24]
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 ...