State of Oaxaca, Mexico

A Mexico City woman is dead after a midair collision between two skydivers at a resort town in Oaxaca Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT. The accident occurred at Zicatela ... Skydiving is a popular sport among visitors to this tourist destination on the coast of Oaxaca. A company from Cuautla, Morelos, offers ...

Wenzlau lamented that firefighters “are not honored in Mexico, and they really do incredible work.” “I do happen to believe in Chief Maza, and watched him run into buildings on fire as a true hero.” The video of the “hidden” truck in Oaxaca was shot by the Citizens' Eye for Democracy and Against Corruption, ...

Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat Hinojosa has announced that Canadian mining companies will invest US $87.5 million in his state during the next six months, creating over 5,000 direct jobs. ADVERTISEMENT. The governor participated last week at the Mexico Mining Day forum, part of the Prospectors ...

Oaxaca is a popular destination for those wishing to attend one of the many cooking classes on offer. Here you experience a fun day learning how to prepare traditional Oaxaca dishes and the famous Mexican mole sauce – best of all, you end the day eating your delicious achievements, washed down with ...

Disney•Pixar's Coco is available today on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand, and ComingSoon.net was lucky enough to attend a home video junket in Oaxaca, Mexico alongside the film's co-writer and co-director Adrian Molina! Check out a special gallery below, along with a video in the player ...

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Oaxaca on Friday, with its epicenter close to Pinotepa Nacional and Santiago Jamiltepec, where about 50 homes were damaged, as well as a church and a government building. Juchitan, a small town near the coast, was also badly destroyed. No deaths were reported in ...

But 13 people were killed hours later when a military helicopter bringing Mexico's interior minister, Alfonso Navarrete Prida, and the governor of the state of Oaxaca to a town near the quake's epicenter crashed, the Oaxaca state prosecutor's office said in a statement cited by local news outlets. Mr. Navarrete ...

Local media reports out of Oaxaca showed a partially collapsed hotel and other buildings with partially collapsed roofs or walls split open by deep fissures. The Oaxaca state government said via Twitter the worst damage was in the towns of Pinotepa and Santiago Jamiltepec, and said shelters were opened ...

You don't need to remember the seven regions of Oaxaca or speak one of its 67 indigenous languages; you can easily appreciate its 1,500-year history in the Zapotec pyramids, the agave-studded desert, the otherworldly mineral springs and the gilded cathedrals that provide the backdrop for its vibrant ...

The star of Oaxaca transport is the Mexican made Nissan Tsuru, the study little sedan that nearly every taxi driver negotiates over, around, and through heavy traffic, torn up streets, and fearsome topes: speed bumps that resemble the base of an undersized Zapotec temple, middle of the road architecture ...

The tortilla is monumental, stretched to its limits on the tin platter. It was made in Oaxaca, Mexico, of masa (a dough of dried corn steeped in slaked lime) pressed flat until kerchief-thin, then baked on the comal to an even crackle, as crisp at the circumference as at the center. The corn is different there, ...

The governor, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, his wife, and other state and federal officials, are overwhelmingly guerro, in contrast to most of their constituents. Oaxaca's first lady has long blond hair, which she occasionally wears in traditional, indigenous-style braids, which only highlights how out-of-place she ...

With Oaxaca's renewable energy growth plan back on track, Murat is focusing on the state's potential to become a logistics hub. Strategically located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, Oaxaca state can become a gateway zone for investors from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas, ...

We recommend a camera for virtually every destination, but Oaxaca's natural beauty and art scene really call for one. Shooting with a mirrorless camera, like the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II, means that you'll get quality images with a fairly compact device. It comes with a nice lens, but if you do want to ...