Charity begins at home
These kids are Tarahumara indians who live in the Copper Canyon area. The Tarahumara are among the most marginalized of Mexico's indigenous peoples, and suffer from severe drought in the summer and nea...
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A gala in Oaxaca
Inside the main chapel at Santo Domingo Church, one of many highly decorated colonial and post colonial buildings in Oaxaca in which music is presented.
The Teatro Macedonio Alcala exists because of t...
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Letters from Mexico watch out for the wind
This was written around Christmas of 1994. The banner hangs outside an opposition union office in Oaxaca.
After ten days, the occupation ended. The teachers, some ten thousand strong, went back home t...
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A world class museum opens in Oaxaca
A detail salvaged from the original convent of Santo Domingo graces one side of the main entrance to the newly refurbished Oaxaca Cultural Center and Regional Museum.
[This is a special article abou...
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Truth in packaging
In a place where the image of something can attain more significance than its substance, the propaganda war is waged without letup. Just like at home... (The wall of the governor's official residence, ...
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Letters to the editor: Sept. 1996
Below are some archives of letters to the editor that Stan has chosen to answer with open responses.
August 23, 1996: A Border Resident Shares Her Experiences
Sandy Weisel writes:
Hi, I just love ...
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Is this the border zone, or the twilight zone?
On one end of the Tapatio, one of Guadalajara's walking streets, is a plaza featuring many quirky benches, a table, and this chair. Cast in bronze, it is worn into a wonderful patina by the many people...
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Is there a doctor in the house?
This drawing of a latrine is painted on a wall next to the main square in San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca. It was paid for by the National Health, as a preventative medicine strategy.
There are fou...
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Letters to the editor: Dec 1995
Below are some archives of letters to the editor that Stan has chosen to answer with open responses. December 20, 1995
Victor Salas writes that, having been born and raised in ...
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Welcome to San Miguel de Gringolandia
I don't remember where this picture was taken, but I thought it a nice little color splash to brighten your day. Photography by Dan McWethy
[This article, as many I have written, says at least as much...
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Three blind mice
This was written in 1994. How to survive - and stay - in Oaxaca, were very much on my mind. (The picture is of the Oaxaca State Band playing their Sunday concert in the zocalo.) Photography by Diana Ri...
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The Rompe Cabeza man
Maestro Ignacio Cervantes plies his trade in the Alameda, in front of the Cathedral in Oaxaca. Photography by Diana Ricci
[" Rompe - Cabeza " (ROM-pe ca -BAY-sa, literally "head b...
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What's today's rate?
I wrote this in early 1995, when the peso was on a slide. For many, especially the Mexican people, the "devaluation" was no laughing matter.
"It's 5.0 at the Caseta de Cambio (money changer) in Cinco ...
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Fear and uncertainty in Chiapas
A monument to the 45 refugee victims of the massacre on December 22, 1997 in Acteal, Chiapas, at the hands of a paramilitary death squad. The child's shoe is a symbol of the many children who died that...
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