What You Need to Know: For the people of Oaxaca, July is the “Month of the Guelaguetza,” the “Greatest Festival of Oaxaca” and the most anticipated celebration of the year, bringing together the essence and traditions of the state in a unique cultural showcase. Although the Lunes del Cerro celebrations will take place on July […]

Today, at a 4:00 PM City Council session, the Oaxaca de Juárez municipal government will vote on a resolution approving the removal of a section of Las Rosas Street—located in the Reforma neighborhood—from the public domain. The resolution sets the price for its potential sale to Banca Mifel (acting as trustee for Trust 8929/2025 GFM, […]

Due to a massive power outage affecting hundreds of Zapotec families for nearly a week, residents of the communities of Monte Águila, San Antonio Tutla, and Ejido Madero, Oaxaca, blocked Federal Highway 185 (the Trans-Isthmus Highway) along the Sayula de Alemán–Matías Romero stretch. The protest cut off the northern zone of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec […]

Members of Subsection 07 of the National Union of Health Secretariat Workers (SNTSA) staged a three-hour protest yesterday outside the Dr. Aurelio Valdivieso Civil Hospital to denounce the state of neglect and the shortages plaguing the facility. They reported a lack of medicines, supplies, and autoclaves—machines essential for sterilizing equipment and surgical linens—a situation that […]