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A Mayan woman embraces a girl sitting on her lap in the refugee camp in Benito Juárez, Chiapas. Refugees in the camps had no resources to deal with illness such as tubercolosis, dengue, malaria or malnutrition. On September 29 of 1982, more than one hundred armed Guatemalans took control of a small village nearby, and a Guatemalan paramilitary unit kidnapped two Guatemalans in Benito Juárez. Their mutilated bodies were later found in a river. Una mujer maya abraza a una niña sentada en su regazo en el campamento de refugiados de Benito Juárez, Chiapas. Los refugiados en los campamentos no tenían recursos para lidiar con enfermedades como la tubercolosis, el dengue, la malaria o la desnutrición. El 29 de septiembre de 1982, más de cien guatemaltecos armados tomaron control de un pequeño pueblo cercano, y una unidad paramilitar guatemalteca secuestró a dos guatemaltecos en Benito Juárez. Sus cuerpos mutilados fueron encontrados más tarde en un río.
Documentary photographs Refugee children Women refugees Chiapas (Mexico)--History Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Social conditions Refugee families
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