Guatemala - Without a Trace of Bitterness in Her Voice
Title: Guatemala - Without a Trace of Bitterness in Her Voice
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Guatemala - Without a Trace of Bitterness in Her Voice
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Guatemala is the land of Eternal Springs and the home of the richly cultured and historic Mayan people. It it also the country of Rigoberta Menchu, an illeterite farm worker, turned voice of oppressed people everywhere. Guatemala also has the sad distinction of being home to Latin America's oldest civil war. 'For more than three decades, left-wing guerrillas have fought a series of rightist governments in Guatemala. The war has killed an estimated 140,000 in …showed first 75 words of 1592 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1592 total…and oppressed Indians. Yet when she speaks, she speaks of her beautiful culture, and of the many joys that her family had over the years, all without a trace of bitterness in her voice.
Without A Trace Of Bitterness In Her Voice
Stacye Rothbard
Transcultural perspectives
November 11, 1996
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Works Cited
Menchu, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman In Guatemala. London: Verso, 1984.
'Guatemalans Take New Step Toward Peace.' The New York Times
14 June 1996, pA4 col 2
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