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Irmalicia by Velásquez Nimatuj
elPeriódico (February 14, 1911)

conclude the discussion on racist speech issued by the President Álvaro Colom U.S. Ambassador James Derham, for Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize, and published a cable from Wikileaks. Three points are pending, the first when the president said he was present at a Maya ceremony in which indigenous leaders "Menchú formally pardoned for having betrayed his people." The second, when said to know the "truth" about the circumstances in which she learned English and her older sister, Yolanda, when he was a guerrilla taught him "up the mountain." And the last when he said that "his teacher told Indian in Guatemala never have an indigenous president for disagreements among the 22 indigenous Mayan groups. "

The first two points, since its emergence into public life attracted Rigoberta Menchú deep sympathies but also rejects, within and outside the country. Indian is the figure around which it has made as many debates, academic and political writings, but also jokes and insults. Simply review the university libraries to access to books, essays, articles and discussions about public and private life. Why this attraction to deconstruct or destroy it? What she embodies for groups economic, political and thought that does not tolerate? Why is tagged with the label were others who helped and saved from ignorance and not herself?

Mayan Within its presence triggers internal complexities. So it shows that there is no homogeneous indigenous person, but the indigenous person is different. It is a subject faces a series of oppressions, and carries with it complex play it low self-esteem. And when some Indians are reflected in it feel too "Indian" and that Indian-despised in the country, which is looking to get away, to be half accepted, it will never be accepted. Is the syndrome the child does not know how to love their mother "India", but neither father hates Ladin, who is left for social convenience.

And on the third point, in Guatemala will have an indigenous president when he achieved a strategic unit, which requires that the left give up their pride of being the vanguard and when the indigenous majority to strengthen its historical consciousness.