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I, Rigoberta Menchú Menchú, Rigoberta., I Rigoberta Menchú, An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Verso, 1984 (edit by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray) I, Rigoberta Menchú is the biographical account of the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchú of Guatemala. The story of her life is the story of the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Guatemala to maintain a way of life, even just to survive against the realities of a modern world. Wanting nothing more than to live life on their own terms, the Indian people found themselves at the mercy of large land-owners who was them as nothing but cheap tools to use for their own enrichment, yet to engage the government in efforts for reform would involve them in the Cold War struggle between U.S.-backed ruthless dictatorships and the communist backed guerilla insurgencies prevalent throughout Latin America after World War II. To escape the poverty and struggles of life as a finca (plantation) worker, Rigoberta's fath