Global Awareness: Guatemalan Civil War and Effect of Life Narratives
The Readings from Rigoberta Menchu’s I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Women in Guatemala takes place during a particularly horrifying and bloody period: Guatemala’s thirty-six year civil war. The civil war officially started in 1966, but disruption began when Colonol Castillo gained power with help from the CIA, overthrowing the president who was elected by the […]