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NEWS CENTER – Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú has been hospitalized in Mexico City.

Rigoberta was hospitalized in Mexico City yesterday for a severe drop in blood pressure. She had recently registered as an observer in Mexico's June 7th elections, according to TeleSUR, and was planning to travel to the province of Guerrero. There, the families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students and their families have called an election boycott. They are demanding that the Mexican federal state ends the situation of violence and collusion with drug gangs that is terrorizing the people of Guerrero.

Rigoberta, the renowned indigenous Guatemalan activist who has worked for her entire life against human rights violations in Guatemala and pushed for the trial of perpetrators, first traveled to Mexico when she was forced into exile in 1981. She was planning to observe the elections in Guerrero this June 7th. It is still unknown if she will be able to travel there.

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