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Mexico Formalizes Citizenship for Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú

The foreign minister presented her naturalization certificate in recognition of her decades of work advancing indigenous rights.

La Premio Nobel de la Paz, Rigoberta Menchú honra a México al adoptar la ciudadanía por naturalización.
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Overview

  • On July 16, Chancellor Juan Ramón de la Fuente officially conferred Mexican citizenship on Menchú Tum at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City on behalf of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
  • During the ceremony, the SRE highlighted her lifelong defense of indigenous rights and her scholarly contributions at universities in Mexico and abroad.
  • Mexican law requires at least two years of legal residency, fluency in national history and symbols, and a clean criminal record for naturalization.
  • Menchú’s ceremony follows high-profile grants of citizenship to singer Mon Laferte in 2022 and to 200 individuals during a midsummer 2024 event.
  • Exiled to Chiapas in 1981, Menchú rose to international prominence after winning the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and serving as a UNESCO goodwill ambassador.