Article: GUATEMALA: MEXICO & UN END REFUGEE-ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AFTER LAST GROUP RETURNS TO GUATEMALA.

On June 24, the last group of Guatemalan refugees left the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, and Quintana Roo and returned to Guatemala. This brought to nearly 42,000 the number of Guatemalan refugees repatriated from Mexico. On July 28, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, Guatemalan President Alvaro Arzu, and Sadako Ogata, the UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), participated in a ceremony in the village of Santo Domingo Keste, Campeche, formally ending two decades of expatriation for thousands of Guatemalans fleeing the civil war. The occasion also marked the end of assistance to the refugees channeled through the Mexican refugee program (Comision Mexicana de ...

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