I, Rigoberta Menchú

Menchú is a K'iche' Maya woman from Guatemala who gave this testimony in 1982 to the Venezuelan anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. It describes her childhood in the highlands, the systematic violence of the Guatemalan military against Indigenous communities, the murder of her father at the Spanish embassy massacre, the torture and killing of her brother, the disappearance of her mother. She was 23 when she gave this testimony. The book won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Controversial in some details but essential as a dispatch from inside the Guatemalan genocide that the US government funded and the world mostly ignored.