Having read the book in a Latin American Studies class at The University of Central Florida, in Dr. Morales' class. I was one of the students that disputed some of the facts in the book. Nonetheless, the book makes valid points about the struggle of a people from misery and oppression. Guatemala was involved in a thirty year war. It was that, a war, in which thousands of people lost their lives, homes, and even their country. You can't take the arguments (Menchú's, Stoll's or The New York Times) at face value. Don't take the books as absolute truths because they are not. There are always two sides to every story and regardless of the truth, in this case the fact remains that conditions in Guatemala are still the same. The guns might be silent, the ideologies are different but nothing has changed. People (Indians and Latinos) are still poor, exploited, oppressed, scared, and killed. I believe that is the truth the book conveys. The book should still be used, because the struggle continues.
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