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Mayan women and children wash themselves and their clothes in the river near the refugee camp of Puerto Rico, Chiapas. Next to them, other women collect water and walk across the river. In May 1984, Mexican newspapers headlined that the Minister of the Interior, Manuel Bartlett Díaz, decided to relocate the approximately 46,000 Guatemalans from Chiapas to Campeche. The first physical resettlement of refugees began in July 1984 in the lowland Lacandón jungle camps of Puerto Rico and Ixcán, and continued in that area through early August. The Mexican government burned down the entire Puerto Rico camp, with close to one-thousand homes, to force the refugees to relocate. Las mujeres y los niños mayas se bañan y lavan su ropa en el río cerca del campamento de refugiados de Puerto Rico, Chiapas. Junto a ellas, otras mujeres recogen agua y cruzan el río. En mayo de 1984, los encabezados de los periódicos mexicanos reportaban la decisión del secretario de gobernación, Manuel Bartlett Díaz, de reubicar a los aproximadamente 46,000 guatemaltecos de Chiapas en Campeche. El primer reasentamiento físico de refugiados comenzó en julio de 1984 en los campamentos de tierras bajas de la Selva Lacandona de Puerto Rico e Ixcán, y continuó en esa zona hasta principios de agosto. El gobierno mexicano incendió todo el campamento de Puerto Rico, con cerca de mil chozas, para obligar a los refugiados a reubicarse.
Documentary photographs Chiapas (Mexico)--History Refugee families Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Social conditions Refugees Women refugees Refugee children Rivers
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