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A group of women and children; Mayan refugees from Guatemala, wash themselves and their clothes in the river at the refugee camp of Puerto Rico, Chiapas. In May 1984, Mexican newspapers reported that Manuel Bartlett Díaz, the Minister of the Interior, decided to relocate 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. Un grupo de mujeres y niños, refugiados mayas de Guatemala, se bañan y lavan su ropa junto al río en el campamento de refugiados de Puerto Rico, 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. 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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