“Overnight, they made a deal with the municipal and state governments, and just like that, they started fencing everything off.” That’s the impression the residents have of the movement that began in their neighborhood when they started demolishing the Hotel Misión de Los Ángeles to make way for Parque Oaxaca, a mega-project by the company […]

The city of Oaxaca awoke to a series of protests by various organizations and unions, including road blockades, the occupation of government offices, and a march. Early this morning, faculty and students from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences occupied the University City campus due to an internal political conflict over the appointment of […]

From the Congress of the Union, federal deputy Margarita García García, of the Labor Party, demanded that Irma Bolaños Quijano, wife of Governor Salomón Jara Cruz and honorary president of DIF-Oaxaca (the Oaxaca State System for Integral Family Development), “go home” for her “institutional negligence” in the deaths of two migrant girls who fell into […]

The Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity reported that 303 femicides have been perpetrated in the last three years in municipalities across the various regions of the state of Oaxaca, reflecting a crisis of femicidal violence “that is neither stopped nor addressed with real urgency.” The most recent crime, they mentioned, is the femicide of […]

After several hours of a blockade on the Pan-American Highway, in the San Manuel area, between Ingenio Santo Domingo and Santiago Niltepec, authorities carried out an operation to remove the protesters, who were demanding the removal of a group of teachers from the College of Scientific and Technological Studies of the State of Oaxaca (CECyTE). […]

The regular session was underway at the Oaxaca State Congress when tension spilled from the plenary hall into the hallways. Residents of San Agustín Amatengo stormed the legislative building and forcibly detained Mayor Italivi Sarahí Juárez Ramírez after legislators rejected a motion to remove her from office. The mayor, identified as a member of the […]

The Government of Oaxaca and the Guelaguetza 2026 Organizing Committee have announced a call for participation in the selection of delegations that will perform at the Lunes del Cerro (Mondays on the Hill) and its Octave, to be held on July 20 and 27. Registration will close on Monday, March 23, and all municipalities in […]

This Saturday, the call for entries for the 2026 CaSa Awards was presented. The awards, which are published in eight indigenous languages, were created by the visual artist Francisco Toledo (1940-2019) in 2010 with the intention of encouraging their use. However, this was not the beginning of the philanthropist’s crusade, according to Sara López Ellitsgaard, […]

On Sunday night, several branches of the Bodega Aurrerá supermarket chain began closing their doors to the public in municipalities of the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, generating uncertainty among the population. According to citizen reports, stores located in Plaza Bella, in Santa María Atzompa, as well as branches in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, suspended customer entry […]

The suspension of classes until further notice was announced by the State Government, through the Oaxaca State Institute of Public Education (IEEPO) and Section 22 of the CNTE teachers’ union, due to acts of violence such as the burning of vehicles in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region. The Oaxaca teachers’ union reported that, as a […]