Rigoberta Menchú
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The text is provided courtesy of Vanderbilt University: Center for Latin American Studies.

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...