The World - News from Nov. 7, 1988
A convoy of Salvadoran refugees, many of them children born in neighboring Honduras, crossed the border to return to their homeland. A total of 836 refugees left the Mesa Grande camp, 24 miles inside Honduras, and crossed into El Salvador at the El Poy border post, 55 miles north of San Salvador. “They were happy as anything to return to their country, with their chickens and pigs and a few belongings,” said immigration official Rafael Meza. It was the third massive repatriation of Salvadoran refugees since the signing of a Central American peace accord in August, 1987, by five of the region’s presidents.
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