[escepticos] RV: RE: NOBEL WINNER'S STORY CHALLENGED

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>Es un asunto muy (pero que muy) colateral a los de interes de la lista...
>pero se que habra a quien le interese... (En el fondo de todo, claro esta,
>reside el asunto de la utilizacion de unas u otras posturas... Es decir,
aun
>suponiendo que Rigoberta Menchu haya exagerado sus historias, el genocidio
>de los mayas es menos genocidio?)
>Saludos,
>
>javier armentia
>-----Original Message-----
>Fecha: miércoles 16 de diciembre de 1998 4:36
>Asunto: NOBEL WINNER'S STORY CHALLENGED
>
>>06:12 AM ET 12/15/98
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>>Nobel Winner's Story Challenged
>>
>>NEW YORK (AP) _ A new book by an American anthropologist claims key
details
>>of an autobiography written by Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Peace
Prize
>>winner, are untrue, The New York Times reported today.
>>
>>``I, Rigoberta Menchu,'' first published in 1983, describes the author's
>>painful history growing up as an uneducated and oppressed member of the
>>Quiche people in Guatemala.
>>
>>Ms. Menchu became an internationally acclaimed spokeswoman for the rights
>>of indigenous peoples, based largely on the best-selling account.
>>
>>But anthropologist David Stoll concludes that Ms. Menchu's book ``cannot
be
>>the eyewitness account it purports to be'' because she repeatedly
describes
>>``experiences she never had herself.''
>>
>>Stoll's book, ``Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans,''
>>is based on archival research and nearly a decade of interviews with more
>>than 120 people, the newspaper said.
>>
>>In September, Ms. Menchu refused to address Stoll's criticisms, dismissing
>>them as part of a racist political agenda intended to gain publicity.
>>
>>A reporter from the Times, using contacts provided by Stoll as well as
>>others found independently, also conducted interviews in Guatemala that
>>contradicted Ms. Menchu's account, the newspaper said.
>>
>>Some of Ms. Menchu's relatives, neighbors, friends and former classmates
>>said main episodes of her book had been fabricated or exaggerated.
>>
>>A land dispute, central to the book, was a family quarrel, they
>>said, not a fight against rich landowners of European descent. A younger
>>brother who Ms. Menchu said starved to death never existed, they said. And
>>Ms. Menchu, who claimed she never went to school, attended two private
>>boarding schools on scholarships, they said.
>>
>>Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told the Times
>>that he was aware of Stoll's work, but ``there is no question of revoking
>>the prize.'' He said the award was not based exclusively on the book.
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