 Rigoberta Menchu's spacious modern home blends seamlessly into this gated upper middle-class neighborhood on the edge of Guatemala City. But behind the walls and guards, there are chickens and rabbits and a flower-bedecked Mayan altar.It's an apt setting for a former peasant girl-turned-Nobel Laureate who straddles two worlds and is running for president of her deeply divided country, on a continent where Indians like herself have suffered centuries of poverty and discrimination.Even though Menchu trails behind the three leading candidates in the Sept. 9 election, the fact that she's running is indicative of the political rise of Indians across Latin America, highlighted by the 2005 election of Bolivian President Evo Morales.Menchu says democratic politics will open a new chapter not only in her own sometimes controversial life but for the 42% of Guatemala's 12 million people who define themselves as Indian....
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