Mesa Grande – Unfinished Sentences

Choosing to Stay Behind

Berta explains her decision not to go to Honduras as a refugee, and the difficulties of living alone in El Salvador during wartime.

Dionisia describes how her husband never made it to the refugee camp Mesa Grande in Honduras, as he was captured and assassinated.

Lucía relates the challenges experienced as she and her family made the trip back home to San Antonio Los Ranchos after being refugees in Honduras.

Pedro describes his experience living in Mesa Grande, a refugee camp in Honduras, and shares his memories of resettling in Guarjila.

Virginia describes life at the Mesa Grande refugee camp in Honduras, and her challenging trip back to Arcatao.

Cástulo describes the kind of organized labor the guerrilla carried out during guindas in order to support the civilian population.

Margarita describes a time during the 1986 invasion when she thought her husband had been killed.

Evangelina describes living conditions in the Mesa Grande refugee camp in Honduras.

Lucía describes how people were organized at the Mesa Grande refugee camp and why she finally decided to return home.