Resent-Date: 17 Oct 1992 07:41:17 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: latino-l-request@amherst.edu
Subject: Rigoberta Menchu Wins Nobel Peace
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Subject: Rigoberta Menchu Wins Nobel Peace
Rigoberto Menchu is this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. She is
the ninth woman to have won since the prize was established in 1901.
Rigoberto is a Guatamalan Mayan, who had to flee her homeland in 1981
after security forces killed her mother, father and brother. She is
in Guatamala, today.
After 500 years of resistance by the Natives of the Americas, Rigoberta
stands as "a vivid symbol of peace and reconciliation." This has been
a fitting tribute.