History of Oaxaca: The Modern Era
History of Oaxaca
Part 3 - Modern Era
By Maria Diaz
Her Bio
Her email: maria@oaxacalive.com
Part 1 Pre-Hispanic Era - Part 2 Colonial Era
Let us continue our...
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Why am I laughing? Street clowns in Mexico
Mutual aid and survival in the mountains of Oaxaca
This road, graded to a high standard for gravel-based bituminous construction, was less than one year old when it washed out. Fortunately, there was still enough mountainside left to make a bypass. Man...
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December in Oaxaca
In December in Oaxaca there's a fiesta almost every day, which makes this colonial city one of the most popular holiday destinations for both foreigners and Mexicans. We describe below the main ce...
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Green means food, red means starvation: Agriculture in Mexico's Mixteca Alta
These bells were removed from the church at Santa Maria Tiltepec. An earthquake caused severe structural damage to the bell tower in June of 1999. Erosion caused the red gashes in the surrounding hills...
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History of Oaxaca: The Colonial Era
History of Oaxaca
Part 2 - Colonial Era
By Maria Diaz
Her Bio
Her email: maria@oaxacalive.com
Part 1 Pre-hispanic Era
Welcome to the continuation of an overview o...
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Stay in Mexico, or go North to work? Every family's dilemma
There are three sons missing from this family portrait. They have gone "North" to find work. Like most villages in southern Mexico, theirs depends on its' migrants for the money to buy food, clothing a...
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The Oaxaca library: A project of, by and for the people
Ruth Gonzalez, Librarian, in the front room of the Oaxaca Circulating Library, where she has worked for almost all the 35 years of its existence
© Diana Ricci, 1999
For the English speaking commun...
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Bring it with you when you come: Susan Trilling in Oaxaca
Bahias de Huatulco on Mexico's Oaxaca coast
Bahias de Huatulco (pronounced Wa-tool-co) located on the coast of Oaxaca, ( map) about six hours from Oaxaca City by car, and approximately three hundred miles south of Acapulco, is the latest d...
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History of Oaxaca: The Pre-hispanic Era
History of Oaxaca
Part 1 - Pre-hispanic Era
By Maria Diaz
Her Bio
Her email: maria@oaxacalive.com
In three installments we will present a history of Oaxaca, its pe...
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Huatulco: an undiscovered paradise
I just returned from four days in Huatulco, located along the coast of Oaxaca at the end of the Southern Sierra Madre mountains. The area's nine bays and twenty-three beaches stretch 35 kilometers alon...
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Internet services and cyber cafes in Oaxaca
Internet Service Providers are readily available. All services support modems to 56k baud. Here are five:
Antequera Red, at Colegio Militar #1009, 3rd floor (across from Gigante Reforma) is an unaff...
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Who's boss here, anyway?
This picture appeared with an earlier article, "The Servant", about four years ago. The girl is still playing and singing along the "tourist walking street" in Oaxaca, as are a couple of her you...
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Gringos helping to fight AIDS in Mexico
Condon Mania, a project of the Frente Comun Contra SIDA (Common Front Against AIDS), sells health - and life - to hundreds of Mexican youth and adults every month. The Frente's major concern is slowing...
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A Glass Garden
There is a sense of permanence in so much change.
"Travel is like peeling an onion, at least one layer will make you cry."
I don't recall who wrote that line, but it holds true. My trek started in th...
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Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
After getting set up to stay in Oaxaca for a while I decided last week to make a quick trip to Guadalajara and Ajijic to pick up some stuff I left there in storage and haul it down to Oaxaca. I had to drive, as I needed my truck to haul the stuff. I had planned to travel alone but at the last minute a young Mexican lady who lives in Mexico D.F. but had been spending Semana Santa in Oaxaca decided to ride with me as far as D.F.
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Travel in Mexico is broadening
Tequila Sunrise is a disco in Puerto Escondido, owned by a couple of Californians. This sign belongs to them. I just thought it ironic that "drugs" apparently does not include booze, which they are in ...
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Glad to be in Oaxaca, Mexico
In January, I celebrated my fifth anniversary in Oaxaca, the second longest period of time I have ever spent in one place. " Soy vagabundo" (I am a wanderer), I often answer when asked what I "do...
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My anniversary in Oaxaca
La Casa de Mescal is a Oaxaca landmark, which at the millenium will have been doing business at this location near the Zocalo for 60 years. Those of us who prefer Mezcal to its cousin, Tequila, know th...
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Headin' South: Cuernavaca to Oaxaca
January 22nd … Adios Cuernavaca…Hola Oaxaca. Not sure how long it would take us to get to Oaxaca, we took off about 7 AM north out of Cuernavaca on Hwy 95D towards Mexico City and shortly thereafter turned south on Hwy 115D (which became 160 at Cuatla) towards Cuatla and Izucar de Matamoros. Although it looked longer on the map than continuing south from Izucar, the plan was to get as soon as possible to the Autopista for Puebla and then go south to Oaxaca on toll roads all the way. Although expensive, toll roads are the way to go as far as I'm concerned.
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In the late summer of 1996, the weary traveler reflects on a long time spent away from home. (Pictured are the ruins at Yagul, near Oaxaca ). Photography by Diana Ricci
Got my ticket in my pocket...
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Puerto Escondido: Mexico's hidden Oaxacan beach
In Spanish, Puerto Escondido means 'hidden port', and the little beach town tucked away in the southern part of Oaxaca certainly lives up to that name. Part of its elusiveness is because there are no d...
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A day in Oaxaca = Two thousand years: Monte Alban and the Zimatlan Valley.
(Part 1: The America's Oldest Urban Center)
Having reached Monte Alban and entered the site, on your right as you stand at the corner of the main plaza is the North Platform, the site of th...
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A day in Oaxaca = Two thousand years: The Americas' oldest urban centre.
The warm afternoon breeze wafts a gentle mist of dust across the floor of the Oaxaca valley and into Oaxaca city, softening the colonial patina of the richly carved, 300-year-old cathedral. The dust is...
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