Oaxaca A thousand years is a frightfully long amount of time. Think Romans, Greeks, Incas, Mayans, and native tribes, but also think about the Zapotecs, because that gives you an idea of the length of time that they dominated the Oaxacan valley of the Sierra Madres in southern Mexico. They did so from an …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The Sanctuary Movement and Fugitive Slaves
Oaxaca This past summer a federal judge in California ruled that state’s sanctuary law was legal. Officials and police could not interfere with federal immigration officers’ efforts to arrest and detain immigrants in the United States, but neither were they legally required to assist in these efforts. Predictably, the decision was roundly derided by …
Political Struggle Comes Naturally to Oaxaca
Oaxaca If the only book you had ever read about Oaxaca was Oliver Sacks,’ Oaxaca Journal from 2002, as I had, you would have a sense of the environment, particularly ferns along the mountain sides at the edge of the desert, and perhaps the world-renowned culinary scene, but you would miss the fact that this …