Latin american and US politics

Rigoberta Menchu and Latino Feminism

Rigoberta Menchu was born a Quiche , a Latin American indigenous group Quiches are people who had great reverence for the nature . She grew up in the highlands or atiplano of Guatemala , an area that is not accessible by car . It is because of this attribute of the locale that she considered the place where she lives as a paradise because only people can reach it (Silverstone , 1998 . Another factor that added up to her appreciation of her hometown 's remoteness is because Rigoberta was born during the

onset of the Guatemalan Civil war and at that time , se felt happy to be far from the hands of the Spanish whom the Quiches called the ladinos . The land up the mountains spawned crops that are less than what is supposed to be enough for the people . This has to be the reason why they had a very high regard to the environment . As a sign of respect to the earth , they took great care of the crops during sowing because they believe that doing so would make the nature share more to them (Debray , 1994 . She appreciated every harvest they had because every good one means that they do not have to go down the mountain and work on coffee plantations now that they had food (Stoll , 1999 . It is evident that the Quiches believed in the sacred feminine . This is perhaps the reason why Rigoberta has great admiration towards nature Their society is unusually less...