Example sentences for: menchú

How can you use “menchú” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A book debunking Rigoberta Menchú , the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, has reignited the domestic culture wars.

  • On the left, Alexander Cockburn declared that Menchú "survives [Stoll's] scrutiny," arguing that his revelations are trivial and that the flaws in Menchú's account of her life are transcended by her success in bringing world attention to the plight of Guatemalan Indians.

  • David Horowitz, right-wing firebrand and head of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has taken out an ad in six college newspapers excoriating "tenured radicals" for defending the distorted autobiographical writings of Guatemalan Nobel laureate and activist Rigoberta Menchú.

  • Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans , by Middlebury College anthropologist David Stoll, documents numerous inaccuracies, fabrications, and shadings of the truth in Menehú's ghostwritten 1987 autobiography.

  • Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza , who first ridiculed Menchú's book in 1991, compared the lefty saint to Tawana Brawley in a recent op-ed, aligning her defenders with those who claimed that the truth of Brawley's allegations didn't matter.


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