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Rigoberta Menchú

Guatemalan Indigenous rights activist

A K’iche’ Maya activist who campaigned for Indigenous and peasant rights during Guatemala’s civil war and won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize.

Rigoberta Menchú sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly nature-first on environment, strongly peace-first on war and peace and strongly state-led on economy.

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Where Rigoberta Menchú sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Rigoberta Menchú

E. F. Schumacher German-British economist, 1911 to 197799%Chico Mendes Brazilian rubber tapper and environmentalist, 1944 to 198899%Vandana Shiva Indian environmental activist98%Cesar Chavez American labor leader, 1927 to 199398%Simone Weil French philosopher and activist, 1909 to 194397%Mahatma Gandhi Leader of the Indian independence movement97%Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate, 1940 to 201197%Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher, 1712 to 177897%

People furthest from Rigoberta Menchú

Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 19537%Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 171510%Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea, 2011 to present10%Adolf Hitler Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 194511%

Political views closest to Rigoberta Menchú

Deep ecologyGives nature value in itself and calls for a radical reduction of human impact.97%Neo-LuddismResists industrial and digital technology that is seen to erode community, work and…95%Christian leftDraws on Christian ethics for social justice, peace and care for the poor, including…94%DegrowthArgues that rich economies should shrink resource use and consumption to stay within…94%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Gobierno de Guatemala, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.