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Monday, 24 October 2011 11:00 |
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 Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the Guatemalan civic leader and winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, attended the XXXIII Faculty on Philosophy and Literature at Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua last week, sharing her life-changing experiences with Chihuahuans.
In dedicating the Humanism Week, she said "we should not allow fear to beat us", she said. "Fear is the first damage made. When people fear, it harms everything".
She noted arms sales is a multi-billion dollar business stoking violence just as violence is kept alive by corrupters and the corrupted alike.
Menchú added there are some interested in maintaining poverty as an industry to prevent citizens from seeking change via their vote.
In an interview with El Heraldo de Chihuahua, Menchú said "most people have left their duties and rights in the hands of others, and that has allowed corruption and other ills of power to collapse institutions.... So now people just has to fight for themselves".
Menchú also had a private meeting with Chihuahua Governor Cesar Duarte and UACH president Enrique Seáñez.
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Get over stereotypes! There is a couple of things you'd want know about the largest state of Mexico
Chihuahua is developing an aerospace cluster. Our universities are training aerospace engineers and technicians right now.
We are developing micro-electromechanical systems at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez. Many national and international companies with operations in the State are potential beneficiaries of our projects. 
The most important archaeological site of Northern Mexico is located in the State of Chihuahua, at Paquimé
In Juarez, just across from El Paso, Texas, there is a museum with original parts of the great supersonic passenger jet