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A group of about twenty refugee women and young girls wash their clothes at a river near the refugee camp of Puerto Rico, Chiapas. Some women, who are carrying small children and are accompanied by young girls use a large fallen tree trunk in the middle of the river to sit and stand. Two small children on the right bathe in 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. Un grupo de veinte mujeres refugiadas y niñas jóvenes lavan su ropa en un río cerca del campamento de refugidaos en Puerto Rico, Chiapas. Algunas mujeres, quienes cargan a niños pequeños y están acompañadas por niñas usan un gran tronco de árbol caído en medio del río para sentarse y pararse. Dos niños pequeños a la derecha se bañan en 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.
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