Where is rigoberta menchu today

Millions for climate change and advocacy, environment and tigers. Microcredit has been proved fatally flawed, sucking the blood of poor women. But the band plays on. From the perspective of Gudalur, my small hill town, much has changed. In , when I began my New Internationalist column, I had to drive kilometres to Mysore to fax my copy to my editor.

In , a conference call linked editors from Oxford, Toronto and Adelaide to unbelievably Gudalur! There are computer training centres everywhere. Village kids think IT is the way to the top. But though even the poorest homes have cellphones these days, we still see a few malnutrition cases. South India is relatively less poor but north India remains immersed in grinding poverty. Malnutrition and maternal mortality figures rival Sub-Saharan Africa even as Indians gloat at the acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover and other international companies.

Dalit action campaigns have seen some success, though Dalits continue to be raped and murdered every day. They are being hounded out of their forest and hillside homes to make way for dams, mining and large companies.

Thousands in central India have been raped, tortured and killed by paramilitary forces as well as by Naxalite guerrillas. The unprecedented protests and anger, the thousands who turned out on Delhi streets braving police batons and water cannons, promised a new beginning. Perhaps India is at a crossroads. Maybe things have to get really bad before they can get better. What else can we hold on to but hope?

By Siglo XX had become a ghost town — ravaged by collapsing tin prices on the world market. Like many of her neighbours, Domitila had moved with her children to Cochabamba. She seemed bitter and somewhat diminished, not then engaged in any political activity. In subsequent years, however, she certainly regained her political fire. She is pictured at a rally remembering her hero Che Guevara, and for years she ran a political training centre for young people from the poorest districts of her city.

When she died of cancer last year at the age of 74, President Evo Morales declared three days of national mourning. This article is from the March issue of New Internationalist. You can access the entire archive of over issues with a digital subscription. Subscribe today ».

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Conservatives have accused her of being associated with communist groups, and the story of her life in her autobiography was questioned by journalist David Stoll in In , she filed charges in a Spanish court against several officials in Guatemala's former military governments, accusing them of genocide, torture, and state terrorism against some , people who had been killed in her country during the s.

In early , she was among the most celebrated speakers at the World Social Forum, a gathering of anti-globalization protesters in Brazil that was timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum, a meeting of politicians and corporate officers that was held at the same time in New York, New York. All Speakers Speeches Political ads. Attorney General U. Cabinet Member U. First Lady U. Representative U.

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It torments him with the unnerving feeling of being watched — maybe by those he violently wronged. He taught me how to write my first words, and more importantly he made me believe in myself. They have an ideological objective, of course, which is to intimidate. Corporate mafias operating from prison, she discovered, have orchestrated the recent controversies.