From: pestrada@koh-sun11.usc.edu (Paul Ruben Estrada)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.mexican
Subject: Re: Spat over Nobel nominees illustrates country's racial tensions
Date: 29 Sep 1992 19:11:05 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1992Sep27.230558.29252@cbnewse.cb.att.com> Multiple recipients of list MEXICO-L <MEXICO-L@TECMTYVM.BITNET> writes:
> _Vast _gulf _in _Guatemala _between _whites, _Mayans
>
>
>	GUATEMALA CITY (UPI) -- The emergence of Indian activist Rigoberta
>Menchu Tum as a strong contender for this year's Nobel Peace Prize has
>so rattled Guatemala's ruling elite that it has scrambled to produce a
>Nobel candidate...


Que estupidos son los guatemaltecos europeos - que creen que su recomendacion

se va a tomar en serio?  




>	Observers say the maneuver also reflects a racist streak against the
>Mayan Indian population, which for decades has been brutalized by the
>military and excluded from the economic and political...



Esto es muy interesante, ya que esta gente Maya de guatemala es nuestra 

propria gente...la gente de nuestro antepasado.  Esto es evidencia de las

atrocidades que ocurrieron en Mexico hace unos pocos siglos.



>	Menchu grew up picking coffee for 20 cents a day in an impoverished
>Quiche province Indian village. Most of her family was killed -- as were
>thousands of Indians -- during the 1980s as the army waged a counter-
>insurgency campaign to wipe out leftist guerrillas.
>	Menchu fled to Mexico, and from exile has spent the past decade
>promoting Indian rights.


Si no se va a Mexico, ya estuviera muerta, o no?



>Menchu is considered one of the favorites since 1992 marks 500 years of
>Indian resistance and survival following the arrival of Columbus in the
>Americas.
>	In addition, awarding the prize to Menchu would put Guatemala's human
>rights record under closer scrutiny.


Trabajo con un guatemalteco.  El me cuenta de los abusos a la poblacion 

indigena por la fuerza militar.  Es verdad que las poblaciones indigenas

siguen pidiendo libertad para practicar sus costumbres.  Cualquier persona

con un entendimiento basico de nuestra historia indigena puede concluir que

el problema en guatemala es serio y debe de haber interviniento. 


>assassinations, disappearances, torture and other abuses are common,
>giving Guatemala one of the worst human rights records in the world.


Pues esto lo sabiamos todos, nomas que EEUU se hace pen*e*o y dice liberar

a los opresionados de Kuwait mientras miles de idigenas mueren solo por 

sus caracteristicas raciales en guatemala.



>	Political analyst Julio Cesar Godoy charged that Menchu is supported
>by communists who want to embarrass Guatemala. Serrano accused Menchu of
>collaborating with the guerrillas. 


Claro que si.  Estos "comunistas" son los indigenas que estas cansados

de el tratamiento injusto por esos de la raza europea.

Verguenza les deben de dar por brutos.  



>	Although Menchu often seems like the scourge of the officaldom, she
>has wide support among students, intellectuals and Indians.
>	``It was incredible,'' said Nicaraguan Indian activist Marlin
>Cunningham, recalling Menchu's visit to Guatemala last October.
>``Thousands of Indians came down from the mountains to see her.''
>
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Menchu ganara, sin duda...

bye,


Paul Ruben Estrada

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