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Caribbean & Central America - April 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Unsteady progress on indigenous rights
The government is stumbling towards improving indigenous rights. It has set up a special council (CAI) to oversee policies that will benefit the Mayan population. It also hailed a landmark ruling on racial discrimination in favour of the indigenous Nobel peace prize winner Rigoberta Menchú as symbolic of the changes it is implementing. Strangely, it then decided to remove the popular anthropologist and specialist in indigenous cultures, Víctor Montejo, from the position of peace secretary.
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