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Chapter XXIV Marcha de los campesinos a la capital. Ocupación de la embajada de España. Muerte de Vicente Menchu, Padre de Rigoberta. She continues to describe here the organizing of indigenous groups and communities in protest. One event described is the take over the Spanish embassy which immediately made Spain cut of relations with the Guatemalan government. However the take-over resulted in the deaths of everyone inside including Rigoberta’s father. Chapter XXXI Huelga de campesinos trabajadores agrícolas. 1. de mayo en la capital. Sobre la iglesia. She describes here her participation as director of the CUC and the organizing they began to do in protest. Chapter XXVI Secuestro y muerte de la madre de Rigoberta Menchu. Rememorando a su madre. She describes briefly the first part of this chapter and the leadership role her mother took with the community. She then moves to the middle of the chapter to describe the tortures and eventually death that her mother suffered by the military. Chapter XXXII Perseguida por el ejército. Clandestina en la capital en un convento de monjas. After the deaths of her mother and father, Rigoberta becomes a target and she describes the trouble she had with this at first but then after staying with her younger sister for awhile she decides to continue to fight.

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Chapter XXXII Perseguida por el ejército. Clandestina en la capital en un convento de monjas. Here she describes her flee to Guatemala City and her brief stay in a convent working as a house servant for the nuns. She had to keep her story to herself at the time. Chapter XXXIII El exilio. She covers most all of this chapter here; describing how her role as a Christian and as an activist influence the revolution. She also describes her decision to go to Mexico and her relationship with her sisters in the continued activism that they do to bring awareness to the situation in Guatemala.