City of Oaxaca, Mexico

A priest, a musician and a French pilot have helped children from an impoverished and violence-stricken community in Oaxaca to realize the unlikely dream of opening a music school in their town. The process began in 2011 when a group of youngsters from the town of Zaachila, located on the outskirts of ...

This is the most popular day hike offered by Zapotrek ecotour company, based in the city of Oaxaca and founded in 2014 by Eric Ramirez, an energetic, upbeat guy who speaks English like a Californian. Ramirez grew up in the Zapotec-speaking town of Tlacolula, outside Oaxaca, and crossed the border ...

They recently arrived in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Adriana Pavon is an artist and designer based in Oaxaca who lived in Detroit for over 20 years. She speaks with Henderson about the work she's doing to create stronger economic and cultural ties between these two places through her art and ...

If you love Oaxacan food and live in New York City, it helps to be mobile. About half a million Mexican-Americans live here, too, and while more have been arriving from Oaxaca in recent years, very few have opened restaurants. The hunting is better north of town. On a free day, you could head upriver to ...

Most significantly, the new restaurant's menu will be informed by Levine's new interest in interior Mexican cuisine. Next month, Levine will travel to Mexico City and Oaxaca City to study the cuisine in order to better incorporate those influences into his cooking. What is it about Mexican food that intrigues him, ...

Ruiz Esparza also said that the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) is committed to restarting work on another stalled highway project that will improve the connection between Oaxaca city and the state's Isthmus of Tehuantepec region. The secretary said that 2.5 billion pesos (US ...

American Airlines has opened a new route between the city of Oaxaca and Dallas, Texas. ... He said that tourist numbers are up by 3% compared to last year's figures, and that more than 105,000 visitors are expected to arrive in Oaxaca city, Huatulco and Puerto Escondido, generating revenues of over US ...

In the sunny colonial city of Oaxaca, Mexico, diners at the upscale restaurant Los Danzantes might notice their fellow patrons drinking a brown, carbonated soda. It looks like Coca-Cola and it tastes — almost — like Coca-Cola. But Coca-Cola it is not. It's a drink called Zega-Cola, an all-natural substitute to ...

MEXICO: A woman on a parachute collided with another paraglider in Mexico and fell abruptly to the beach. She was rushed to hospital where she died, reports say. The incident occurred at a resort town in the central Mexican city of Oaxaca on Saturday (March 17), the Mexico News Daily said in a report ...

From the mountain town of Tlahuitoltepec, the unofficial capital of the Mixe people, to Oaxaca City, a distance of 75 miles the fare is 90 pesos per person, about $4.75. The 12-mile ride from Oaxaca City's El Central to Villa de Etla ('Etla Crucero!') a 9,000 person town famed for its Wednesday market, will set ...

An organization that has donated several emergency vehicles to the Oaxaca city fire department has rejected an accusation that a state fire official has hidden a fire truck at his vacation home. ADVERTISEMENT. Bob Wenzlau of Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto, California, said a fire truck that appeared in ...

A fire engine donated by the authorities of Palo Alto, California, to their counterparts in Oaxaca city is parked and “hidden” in the state fire chief's vacation home, a local non-governmental organization ... For many years the city of Palo Alto has donated several emergency vehicles to its sister city of Oaxaca.

Many were unfamiliar with this area of Mexico, however, it was well known to my husband and I who had just started planning a trip to this region of Mexico. The earthquake left us with concern and sadness and in doubts whether we should still venture there. Time is a good healer, and as the months went ...

The sheer size of these ruins, situated on top of a mountain overlooking Oaxaca City, was staggering. For Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, the director and co-director of Coco, the ruins of Monte Alban provided inspiration for the movie's Land of the Dead. If you look closely at the base of the colorful and ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at 12:57 a.m. CST It was centered 25 miles beneath the surface at a point 33 miles east-northeast of Pinotepa Nacional and 69 miles southwest of the state capital, Oaxaca city. It appeared to be an aftershock of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck near the ...

Alex McDougall now lives in Oaxaca City. "Everything was shaking in the laundromat but then it just felt like more... so I just stepped out in street and put my hand up against the wall and kind of looked at the trees and the telephone poles and everything was shaking and all of a sudden everyone else was out in the street too ...

Three young members of the Indigenous Rights Defense Committee, Codedi-Xanic, were killed Monday night as they returned home from a meeting with local authorities in Oaxaca City. RELATED: Mexico's Indigenous Council Continues Campaign Despite Violence. Abraham Ramirez Vasquez was ...

... Albarradas's “viernes de tlayuda,” or tlayuda Friday, is ushering in new era of Oaxacan street food with artisanal blue corn and yellow corn tlayudas as good as you'll find in Oaxaca City. He sources the giant tortillas from a family in Tlacolula that makes tlayudas exclusively for him, as well as his asientos, ...

Oaxaca city-Isthmus highway will take at least three years. Mexico News Daily | Tuesday, February 13, 2018. The completion of two highway projects in the southern state of Oaxaca is likely still years away, according to a high-ranking official in the federal Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT).

The Oaxaca city government admitted this week that its traffic is indeed slow after a study revealed the average speed of vehicles in the city is the slowest in the world. ADVERTISEMENT. A study by the United Nations found that the lack of a high-capacity public transportation network was a key problem.

It might sound cheesy to the uninitiated, but the more you talk to people in Oaxaca City, the more the word magical comes up. There's a palpable quality about the Mexican city that courses through the air and into your veins. Maybe it's quiet energy reverberating off of the valley's surrounding purple ...

Some 2,000 state government employees in Oaxaca city were held hostage yesterday during a protest by residents of a Zapotec indigenous community. An estimated 500 people from Santo Domingo Teojomulco turned up at 9:00am at a government office complex known as Ciudad Judicial to demand a ...

From Oaxaca City, head to Teotitlan del Valle, a sleepy town at the foothills of the Sierra Norte mountains with a vibrant textile market and dozens of rug shops. Nearby town Tlacolula also has a must-see Sunday market with dozens of stands of food, handmade goods and even live animals. If nature is more ...

Oaxaca International Language School is a small school located in the midst of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, which UNESCO has declared a cultural heritage site for humanity. They teach Spanish as a second language at seven different levels to kids, teenagers, and adults and train foreign teachers and ...