Rigoberta Menchú

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map of Guatemala

Guatemala is a country located in Central America that shares borders with Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras. Much of Guatemala’s population is Indigenous Maya. The Maya lived in Guatemala before the Spanish conquerors arrived in the 1500s. From 1960-1996, Guatemala had a civil war where the Indigenous...

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