Posted on 01/31/2007 9:25:48 PM PST by Enchante
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's Maya Indian Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Wednesday she may run for president this year in a bid to become the second indigenous head of state in Latin America.
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Of course most of the MSM and the fraudulent academics who pumped this fraud into an international icon never talk about this (even though her fraudulent "autobiography" was unmasked to some extent in the NY Times, most leftists go blindly along pretending she is an honest person):
http://www.boundless.org/1999/departments/isms/a0000074.html
"Then, just last week, the New York Times revealed that much of I, Rigoberta Menchu is a fabrication. Times reporter Larry Rohter corroborated the research of an American anthropologist, David Stoll, whose interview with over a hundred people and archival research during the past decade led him to conclude that Rigoberta’s story “cannot be the eyewitness account it purports to be.”
It is okay, her intentions are good.
Excellent decision to select the one career field in which being a self-aggrandizing, lying fraud is an asset - politics. Other fine choices, such as attorney or actress, also beckon.
don't forget college professor and news reporter.
oh and global warming expert
Yes - thanks for those apt additions.
And weatherman.
Backed by Chavez no doubt.
This will be the first socialist revolution backed by 'Oprah's book of the month club' funding.
We've entered strange times.
Wait a minute... hang on... at least the weatherman gives it an honest try, doesn't he? Although he's wrong half the time - which sort of implies one could as well pick the weather by flipping a coin - I think that an honest try may disqualify him for the list...
Ah, she is eligible for the Ward Churchill award!
If her only vice is that she's a fraud, then she's uniquely qualified for the job. At least she's not a genocidal maniac, which is typical of the region.
14 Indians, including kids, flogged in “Maya punishment”
Agencia EFE | 22 August 2006 | Staff
Posted on 08/22/2006 7:03:36 PM EDT by Kitten Festival
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688282/posts
This nut and JFK Jr joined in protesting the US Navy range on Cheques, which eventually Clinton closed, then later used as an excuse to close the USN base. Cuba must have enjoyed that.
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