Rigoberta Menchú
b. 1959 · Guatemala · Peace, Literature
Nobel Peace Prize, 1992
Indigenous rights advocate whose testimonio reached the world.
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- Eduardo Galeano
1940 – 2015 · History, Literature
Open Veins gave Latin American indigenous testimony its historical-economic frame.
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