Rigourta Menchu Research Paper

Menchu spent her childhood helping with her family’s agricultural labor, she also served and worked on coffee plantations (finca). Starvation and malnutrition were very constant and Indians were sprayed with pesticides. Rigoberta focuses around her community and things that occurs in surrounding villages As a young woman, she became an activist in the local women’s rights movement and joined with the Catholic church to advocate for social reform. Trucks often carried families to the plantations and would have as long rides such as 24 hrs. They were covered with a tarp, and not permitted to get out during any stops, the smell of human and animal excrement is unbearable. and sometimes without any breaks. In the capital, Guatemala City twelve-year-old Menchu worked as a servant, her employers starved and abused her they also forbade her to wear her traditional Guatemalan dress.
The landowners figure out vigorous ways to elude the workers, by changing set prices or charging excessive prices on the plantation cantina, where many workers would go and drink away their suffering. Menchu was raised to work for no pay until she was old enough to be considered as an adult. Later on throughout Rigoberta’s life, her father was killed for organizing peaceful resistance and then guerilla revolts against powerful land barons. She herself was exiled and became an activist in Mexico, crusading to reform her homeland. Her autobiography is a chronicle not just of her ideals but of her life as a Native woman. From Mechues’ view, the Indians are good and the ladinos are bad. Her extreme polarity is the result of mistreatment by the ladinos she has worked for or encountered in her life. Mechue story enshrined a rationale for guerrilla warfare that continues to enchant the latte left in New Haven long after it has lost its appeal in rural