Essay on Rigoberta Menchu - Liar or Educator - 604 Words

In the article â€Å"Liar, Rigoberta Menchu† by Dinesh D’Souze(1999) he states that anthropologist David Stoll and New York Times reporter Larry Rohter found evidence that Rigoberta Menchu lied in her autobiography and therefore her book should not be used in schools and universities. First of all it is said that Rigoberta Menchu claims that she never went to school but she actually has the equivalent of a middle school education which she received due to a scholarship and attended two prestigious private boarding schools that were operated by Catholic nuns, this was verified by her half-sister who also said that Rigoberta could have not spent eight months on coffee and plantation fields and working as a political organizer because she spent†¦show more content†¦I like many others find the accusations that Menchu lied presumptuous because in my eyes they haven’t proved anything and we don’t know if the so called â€Å"evidence† can be relie d on as the truth because first of all we all know of the economic hardships that the people of Guatemala face and that the person that said that he was Rigoberta’s brother could have been paid, also we don’t know what the relationship between Rigoberta and her half-sister was like and she could be saying things out of spite due to Rigoberta’s success. I believe that if these things were actually true why these people haven’t come forward in public to discredit Rigoberta Menchu. In the article Guatemala Laureate Defends My Truth By Julia Preston, Mr. Stoll said today that he had never intended to accuse Menchu of lying. He said You can understand and defend her narrative strategy, of folding others experience into her own because she was trying to bring down pressure on the Government and army†. When asked supporters of Menchu such as Marjori Agosin of Wellesley College say that â€Å"whether or not Rigoberta’s autobiography was faked, the native Indians of Guatemala have endured unimaginable hardships, the death