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Thelma Cabrera

Indigenous human rights defender and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
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Source-derived summary

Thelma Cabrera Pérez de Sánchez is an Indigenous rights activist and politician. Cabrera ran for president of Guatemala in 2019 as part of the political party, Movement for the Liberation of Peoples. She finished fourth in the 2019 election garnering 10.3% of the popular vote, the highest vote total for an indigenous candidate in Guatemalan history.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Thelma Cabrera” as indigenous human rights defender and politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Thelma, Cabrera and Indigenous.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Thelma, Cabrera and Indigenous providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thelma Cabrera” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.