ABSTRACT
To avoid the violent containment altogether, many Azuleros and other highland Maya chose not to return, nor to be part of the patrols that policed their borders. Santos and his family were among those who lived in Chiapas from the night of the Limonar attack in 1982 until 1996 and beyond. After wandering from one finca to another, working for a few days or weeks at each site, Santos' family found and settled in an officially recognized refugee camp named Sun Sapote. During the family's period of wandering, the Mexican government had finally changed its policies towards the Guatemalans and, with international support, initiated the Comisión de México para Asistir los Refagiados (COMAR)—Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance. Santos' family found Sun Sapote, a private piece of land owned by a widow but also supported by COMAR, and procured a place to build a metal shack and received a few government provisions to make their lives possible in stationary place.
