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Menchú, Rigoberta

Menchú, Rigoberta rē˝gōbĕr´tä mĕncho͞o´ [key], 1959–, Guatemalan social reformer. Of Mayan descent, she and her family were caught in Guatemalas bloody civil war. Protesters against human-rights abuses, her father, mother, and younger brother were killed by Guatamalan soldiers, and in 1981 Menchú fled the