In an elaborate ceremony mixing tears and laughter, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum was married and buried her baby in the village of San Pedro Jocopilas, a highlands town. Menchu, who won the prize in 1992 for her activism against the slaughter of the nation's Indian majority during a 35-year civil war, returned from Mexico City for the religious ceremony. She married Angel Canil in a Mayan ceremony in Mexico City three years ago. Their wedding Saturday was conducted in a Roman Catholic church. The wedding was followed by the burial of the cremated remains of the couple's son, Tz'unun--"hummingbird" in Menchu's Quiche Maya language.
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