Acuerdos y conflictos en dos localidades fronterizas chuj entre México y Guatemala

This article ethnographically describes agreements and conflicts present in a border fragment shared by two Chuj communities: El Quetzal, located in Guatemalan territory, and Tziscao in Mexico. This paper intends to reflect and analyze how border communities maintain agreements and conflicts as inherent phenomena of daily social and dynamic relationships. The conformation of the border territory is contextualized from the delimitation of the geopolitical border in 1882, also differentiated accesses to material goods and services, which are possible from the national condition of its inhabitants, are presented. In this process, a series of agreements and conflicts related to domestic water, commerce, tourism activities, and the border crossing of the Guatemalan population to Mexico arise. Finally, it is observed that amid conflicts existing socio-cultural relations of continuity and stories of reciprocity sustain the social relations of the Chuj cultural group.