For the second consecutive day, drivers of Urvan vans and buses are blocking Federal Highway 190 to demand the regularization of their vehicles. The protest is taking place in front of the Oaxaca delegation of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation, where their vehicles are obstructing traffic in both directions. The leader of the […]

A new oil spill from Pemex pipelines—the eighth in a month—occurred on Tuesday in the port of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s most important ports, according to reports from authorities and residents. The leak occurred in the Jardines neighborhood, where local authorities activated safety protocols to protect the population and assess the environmental impact. […]

In Oaxaca, members of the Triqui Unified Struggle Movement (MULT) marched this Monday, July 6, 2026, from the Fountain of the Eight Regions to the city’s Zócalo (main square) to demand justice for members of their organization who have disappeared or been murdered, and to denounce the lack of progress in the investigations of these […]

The modernization of the San Pedro Pochutla-Santa María Huatulco section of the Salina Cruz-Zihuatanejo highway, being carried out by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), has reached 59.84 percent completion, with 15.32 kilometers of its total 25.6-kilometer target completed. The Oaxaca Center reported that the project involves widening the road from 7.0 to […]

In an atmosphere of joy, identity, and tradition, the “Guelaguetza for Seniors Toz Nakchho 2026” was celebrated for the third consecutive year, organized by the Oaxaca State System for Integral Family Development (DIF). The event brought together 1,500 attendees at the Plaza de la Danza in the state capital. Twelve delegations, comprised of seniors from […]

Taxi drivers and owners of intercity taxi services marched in Oaxaca City to protest the reorganization of public transportation in the city center. The drivers marched to Primavera Park, where Governor Salomón Jara Cruz was holding his morning press conference. They then commandeered a Binni Bus and blocked the highway to Monte Albán. A month […]

Oaxaca’s cultural delegation left its mark at the opening of the “The States at Los Pinos” program, an event that brings the public closer to the country’s cultural, gastronomic, and artisanal diversity, where Oaxaca’s roots and traditions took center stage. Before the speeches even began, the atmosphere already made it clear that Oaxaca had arrived […]

This afternoon, the Oaxaca State Attorney General’s Office and the State Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection detained several homeless individuals and drug addicts under the operation dubbed “Operation Fisherman.” Members of the National Guard and the Auxiliary Police also participated in the operation; however, according to reports from the State Police, arrests were made, […]

At least three men were shot and killed Thursday night; Santiago Pinotepa ranks among the municipalities in the state of Oaxaca with the highest number of homicides, according to the Oaxaca Attorney General’s Office. In the wave of violence plaguing Afro-Mexican communities on the Oaxaca coast, Jassiel S. V., a doctor from San Juan Cacahuatepec, […]

The Mexican National Team’s qualification for the Round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup once again sparked massive celebrations in various cities across the country. However, in several locations, the celebrations ceased to be mere expressions of joy and turned into situations that endangered participants and bystanders. In Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, a video circulating […]