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Laj Chimel or Chimel is a community located in the cloud forest of the municipality of San Miguel Uspantán, Department of El Quiché, Guatemala. It is the birthplace of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum. [1]
Aug 18, 2021 · On January 9, 1959, in Laj Chimel – a small indigenous community surrounded by unpaved Guatemalan mountain range — a Quiché Mayan child and future luminary for indigent natives across the Western Hemisphere was born.
Rigoberta Menchú was born to a poor Indigenous family of K'iche' Maya descent in Laj Chimel, a rural area in the north-central Guatemalan province of El Quiché. [5] Her family was one of many Indigenous families who could not sustain themselves on the small pieces of land they were left with after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala ...
Laj Chimel is a small Mayan village in the highlands of Guatemala and the birthplace of nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu. The inhabitants suffered greatly at the hands of the army during the civil war in Guatemala and all fled to the forest at one point.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum was born in Laj Chimel, a village in the remote central highlands of the department of El Quiché. Without electricity or roads, the village felt far away from the Guatemalan Army.
Apr 23, 2021 · Menchú was born in an indigenous family in Laj Chimel, Quiché, Guatemala. Her family was both catholic and mayan and Menchú has always described herself as a mix of the two cultures. The Mayan side was mainly brought to her by her mother, who was a very spiritual person.
The birthplace of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a community named Laj Chimel, is located Uspantán not far from the municipal seat. Completion of paving on the road in from Chichicastenango has brought a small tourist boom to the town.
