WIKILEAKS: Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom Said Rigoberta Menchu is “A Fabrication”

[Derechos]

The President of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom, was the latest world leader to blush and issue damage control half-apologies following an embarrassing WikiLeaks revelation.

A diplomatic document leaked to Wikileaks and published by the whistle-blowing site says the Guatemalan President described the revered Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu as a “fabrication” of French anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos. Burgos helped author the biography “I Rigoberta Menchú,” which introduced the Nobel Prize winner known as a human rights activist to the world.

The cable sent in July of 2008, revealed comments that Colom made to the then U.S. ambassador James Derham, where he said that “ widely disliked by Guatemalan indigenous people” and then commented on her poor results in the 2007 elections as an example of that dislike.

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[Bacchus39]

1. although the atrocities committed by the army are well known, some of her personal accounts

in the book are fabricated.