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Aerial view of a refugee camp in the Lacandón jungle, Chiapas, where Mayas settled to escape genocide in Guatemala. The refugee camps in Lacandón jungle were difficult to provide assistance to because their geographic location limited access to the area to planes, canoes, and mules. Four thousand of the six thousand Guatemalan refugees from the settlement of Puerto Rico, the biggest in Chiapas, hid in the Lacandón jungle when the Mexican government announced in 1984 that they would be relocated by force if necessary. Vista aérea de un campamento de refugiados en la Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, donde los mayas se establecieron para escapar del genocidio en Guatemala. Los campamentos de refugiados en la Selva Lacandona fueron los más difíciles de ayudar debido a que su aislamiento geográfico limitaba el acceso solo a canoas, aviones y mulas. Cuatro mil de los seis mil refugiados guatemaltecos del asentamiento de Puerto Rico, el más grande de Chiapas, se escondieron en la Selva Lacandona.ieron en la Selva Lacandona cuando el gobierno mexicano anunció en 1984 que serían reubicados por la fuerza si fuera necesario.
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