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Whose Testimony? Whose Truth? Where are the Armed Actors in the Stoll-Menchu Controversy?
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, February 2003
- pp. 60-73
- 10.1353/hrq.2003.0011
- Article
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Abstract
A most heated debate has involved David Stoll's (1993) charge that Rigoberta Menchú's testimony was a tissue of lies. He has been accused of missing the essential truths about which Menchú spoke. Stoll's ethnography and the many responses to it are flawed in that they both omit the testimony of the most powerful actor in Guatemala, and don't expand the concept of truth to include that one key actor—the army. This paper examines that testimony and asks: Whose meaning of truth will prevail to serve as the political baseline for Guatemala's future?
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