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Title
Guatemalan refugees work in a field, Ixcán, 1983-01
Creator
Cross, Richard, 1950-1983
Date Created and/or Issued
1983
Publication Information
California State University, Northridge
Contributing Institution
California State University, Northridge
Collection
Richard Cross Photographs (Bradley Center)
Rights Information
Use of images from the collections of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center is strictly prohibited by law without prior written consent from the copyright holders. The responsibility for the use of these materials rests exclusively with the user.
The Bradley Center may assist in obtaining copyright/licensing permission to use images from the Richard Cross collection. http://www.csun.edu/bradley-center/contact
Description
Two Mayan refugees work in the field at the refugee camp of Ixcán, Chiapas. 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.
Dos refugiados mayas trabajan en el campo en el campamento de refugiados de Ixcán, Chiapas. 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.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
color slides
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.sl.B13.05.28.10.jpg
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/2107
Subject
Documentary photographs
Chiapas (Mexico)--History
Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Social Conditions
Refugee camps
Refugees
Mayas
Place
Chiapas (Mexico)
Relation
99.01.RCr.sl.B13.05.28.10.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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