ABSTRACT
Manuel and the author sets out on a bus leaving Rio Azul at six-thirty Sunday morning in March 1996 along the highway from Nenton to Camoja. It would be Manuel's first return to the refugee camp at Nicholas Valiente since his repatriation to Rio Azul. From Camoja, they caught a van to the border, passed through Immigration, and boarded a bus in Mexico for Sun Sapote, the refugee camp. Though most of the refugees could not own land in the camps, or buy houses, some did invest their few extra pesos in home furnishings that they hoped to haul back to Guatemala upon their return. In Antonio's Jugomex home, he had begun writing about Maya history and legends, as well as about his experiences as a refugee. In this campo de refugiados, artists turn a land of exile into a creative region where margins and borders become realms of ideas and poetry.
