Post-modernists declared that the issue of substance was ideological others criticized the ways that David Stoll twists evidence activists pointed out that the media’s feeding frenzy marks quite a contrast to its pattern of disinterest in Guatemala’s human rights record during the 1980s, in the Peace Accords or in the Truth Commission’s recent report. Stoll’s book unleashed the heavy artillery of the culture wars in book reviews and op-eds across the United States. It’s based on interviews in Guatemala’s scorched earth zones that contradict some of the details of Menchú’s famous testimony, I. . . Rigoberta Menchú. The book, Rigoberta and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, paints guerrillas as parasites and Rigoberta Menchú, who won the peace prize in 1992 for her defense of Indigenous rights, as their pawn. Anthropologist David Stoll published a book claiming to have unearthed not only Rigoberta’s lies, but also the deceptions of the entire Latin American left from Zapata to Che and beyond. THIS JANUARY, THE charge that the Maya human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú had lied about her past hit the U.S. Comrade and Friend: Bob Strowiss 1919-1999.Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages.Looming Crisis: On Brenner's Theory of Crisis 'Total Capital' Rigor and International Liquidity: A Reply to Robert Brenner.Capital's Global Turbulence: A Symposium.Random Shots: Weird Sex and Boiled Bacon.A Revolutionary Woman in Mind and Spirit: The Passions of Rosa Luxemburg.Rigoberta Menchú: A Witness Discredited?.A Profile of East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta.Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts.CPE: Demystifying Economics-Interview with Elissa Braunstein.Waiting to Inhale: Culture Wars or Unfinished Gratification?.

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