Chiapas refugees in Guatemala: 'Bullets are flying near us, we never thought violence would reach our neighborhood.'

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Chiapas refugees in Guatemala: 'Bullets are flying near us, we never thought violence would reach our neighborhood.'

A serious humanitarian crisis has erupted in southern Mexico, where over 600 people from some Chiapas communities have fled the violence of criminal cartels and crossed into Guatemala, many of them walking for hours along mountain trails and dirt roads to avoid the Grijalva River. The Guatemalan government and local authorities are trying to provide shelter, food, and medical care to the displaced, who fled with little chance of collecting basic…