Refugees – 2001

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No significant progress was made toward comprehensive rural development, and displaced persons especially suffered from social exclusion and denied access to land. Whatever projects were being implemented were piecemeal and short-sighted.1

Refugees – 2000

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While the Government made plans to improve education, health and housing programs for resettled persons, it did not actually allocate funds to the projects.2

Refugees – 1999

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The process of repatriating Guatemalan refugees from Mexico was completed on 30 June 1999. Approximately 43,000 persons in total were resettled, but they faced a precarious situation in Guatemala due to shortcomings in with land access programs.3

Refugees – 1997

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Approximately 4,000 refugees, mainly from Mexico, returned to Guatemala. Some 32,500 refugees still remained in Mexico.4

In order to help displaced persons return to a normal life, the Congress adopted the Temporary Special Act on Personal Documentation of the Population Uprooted by the Internal Armed Conflict, which took effect on 16 October 1997. Some municipalities refused to implement it, however, and the Ministry of the Interior for its part failed to ensure the law was properly observed across the country.5