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Aerial view of Puerto Rico refugee camp in Chiapas. A pile of tree trunks lie in the foreground. The camp has several huts—five small huts stand in the foreground among fallen trees. One large hut and two smaller huts stand in the middle ground. Several tents are set up in the forest background. A group of people congregate in the larger hut on the left. Other people walk among the rest of the camp. 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. Vista aérea del campamento de refugiados en Puerto Rico, Chiapas. Una pila de troncos de árboles se encuentran en primer plano. El campamento se compone de varias chozas; cinco chozas pequeñas se ubican en primer plano entre los árboles caídos. Una choza grande y dos chozas más pequeñas se ubican en el medio. Varias carpas se ven al fondo del bosque. Un grupo de personas se congrega en la choza más grande a la izquierda. Otras personas caminan entre el resto del campamento. 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.
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