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    low levels of literacy and education attainment, their plight is one that is well documented. The indigenous populations have remained in a more or less stagnate position, until recent upturns in the 21st century. In addition, in the year 1992, Rigoberta Menchu, an indigenous Mayan woman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism and account of the extent of the Guatemalan genocide. The Guatemalan republic one with high levels of biodiversity, and extremely abundant in natural resources such

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    stopped communism from spreading but overall they wanted control of their profitable resources. The after effects of the overthrown government put the country of Guatemala in a civil war that caused the deaths of thousands. Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú states, “200, 000 dead that we have accounted for and more than 50,000 missing. Over 83 percent disappeared and executed. All were Mayas.” (Harvest of

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