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Reaching the people

Indian Country Today
Posted: May 12, 2008
by: Lisa Garrigues / Today correspondent
Mayan TV broadcasts in Guatemala

HOUSTON - The time was right. On April 23, a television station that once was
the voice of the Guatemalan military dictatorship that had massacred thousands
of Mayans showed the glyph of the day from the millennial Mayan calendar and
announced itself as ''TV Maya: Guatemala's multi-cultural station.''

The indigenous people of Guatemala finally had their own television station.

''This is a dream that indigenous people have had for many years: to have a
means of communication,'' Mayan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu told
Agence France-Presse at the official inauguration of the station, which was
also attended by Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and other dignitaries.

The station, funded by the Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages (ALMG),
broadcasts for 30 minutes, three times a day, showing programs that teach Mayan
culture, worldview and language. Its programs are broadcast in indigenous
languages with Spanish subtitles.

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