European tourists drown on Oaxaca beaches

In separate incidents, two tourists of European origin drowned on different beaches in the tourist destinations of Huatulco and Puerto Escondido in the region of the Oaxaca Coast. The first case took place on Tuesday night near La Bocana Beach in the jurisdiction of Santa María Huatulco. This is a foreign tourist from the Czech […]

Triquis protest against the murder of two indigenous women in Oaxaca; they carry out roadblocks

Following the feminicides of Adriana and Virginia O. G., indigenous women from the Triqui nation of Oaxaca, the Triqui Unification and Struggle Movement (MULT), a political and social organization in which they were active, deployed roadblocks indefinitely in the Mixteca region. “Justice for Adriana and Virginia,” “Punishment for the guilty,” are some of the slogans […]

More than 5 thousand people fled due to violence in Oaxaca in 3 years

The head of the Ombudsman’s Office for Human Rights of the People of Oaxaca (DDHPO), Elizabeth Lara Rodríguez, presented yesterday the special report “Internal forced displacement in the state of Oaxaca”, at the facilities of the State Congress. During the presentation, she reported that between the years 2020 and 2023, 156 complaint files and background […]

Business Factory positions Oaxaca as a trigger for the regional economy

With the participation of more than 800 MSMEs, Fábrica de Negocio, más cerca de Ti, began. Sur-Sureste 2024, a meeting in which business people and entrepreneurs from nine states in this region of the country will present their products to large local and national commercial chains, so that they reach sales floors and digital shelves. […]

Oaxaca will ask for the cancellation of Paola Rojas’ mezcal; Mixe people condemn cultural appropriation: “They prostitute our elements”

After the controversy generated by the mezcal called Mixes promoted by journalist Paola Rojas and after Oaxaca announced an investigation, this Tuesday, October 29, Governor Salomón Jara Cruz announced that he will ask the authorities to remove the brand from the market because it is an improper cultural appropriation not only of a cultural element, […]