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She was born the 9th of January, 1959 in Chimel, Guatemala
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In 1975 Rigoberta created a campaing with the goal of stoping with the regime injustices and the way the Guatemala policed and governament abused people and violated human rights -
In 1979 her brother was kidnapped by the militars during the civil war in Guatemala. He was killed -
In 1979 her mother was kidnapped (at the same time as Rigoberta`s brother), she also was tortured and killed by the death squads. A group of militars who just kills people -
In 1980 she went into exile in Mexico. Where she published her autobiography and got famous. Her autobiography arrived and touched people all over the world. -
Vicente Menchú and Francisco Tum were 2 of the 37 people who were burned alive because of an atac of the Gautemala's national police. -
Her autobiography talks about her life and she personifies all of the suffering and transculturation that indigenous people has to go through, on their contries and all through South America -
After spreding her message all over the world. She went back to Guatemala to keep fighting against injustices and police abuses. When she got in, she got arrested at the airport and was forced to leave the country. -
In the summer of the year 1992 she was awarded for her hard work fighting against the police abuses and the violation of human rights in Guatemala. -
In 1998, she recieved the "Prinipe de Asturias", to reward her internacional cooperation -
In February 2nd, 2007. She announced she was runing for president of Guatemala. In these elections she turned up 5th, but she didn't stop trying. -
