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Question

Rigoberta Menchú offers a dramatic account of her life amidst extreme social and political conflict in Guatemala in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of convulsion in other Central American countries as well. For example, in El Salvador, like Guatemala, land conflicts, political exclusion and state repression gave rise to revolutionary movements that sought to bring about fundamental change but were met with brutal state and paramilitary violence.

What factors led indigenous people in Guatemala to engage in protest and even armed rebellion? What were the nature of their grievances? How would you describe the response of the Guatemala state to these grievances?