Menchu calls war on terror a struggle for resources

Menchu calls war on terror a struggle for resources

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Rigoberta Menchu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Mexico City, where she lives in exile from her native Guatemala. The award recognized her efforts to speak out against repression in Guatemala during civil strife there in the 1980s.

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