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How to experience the Oaxaca Food, Wine, Craft Beer and Spirits...
One of Oaxaca's premier gastronomic events — the Oaxaca Food, Wine, Craft Beer and Spirits Festival — returns in February 2027. Organizer Donna Shields dishes on all the details.
Blockades reported in Oaxaca, central Mexico and Veracruz as truckers protest...
Over the weekend, national trucking associations said the indefinite national strike could involve as many as 1 million trucks, while warning the public of potential disruptions to the supply of goods and fuel.
Mezcal production, Mother Earth and the enduring spirit of the Zapotecs
Mezcal is a drink synonymous with Mexico. In this Oaxacan distillery, Zapotec traditions are at the heart of everything they do.
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Music, masked dancing and Afro-Mexican coastal traditions took center stage at Oaxaca’s first Afro...
The festival marked Oaxaca’s Afro-Mexican People’s Day on Oct. 19, and took place in the coastal town of Chacahua Isla on the Costa Chica, a historic heartland of Afro-Mexican culture.
Man arrested at Oaxaca International Airport with more than US $366K in undeclared cash
The newspaper Milenio reported that this was the first significant incident involving undeclared cash at a Mexican airport in more than six years.
New Chiapas lab repairs and protects Indigenous clothing, helping to preserve a valued tradition
The laboratory, founded by the Maya World Textile Center, comes at a time of increasing awareness of Indigenous artisans' right to protect their work from exploitation and expropriation.
Rotting meat stench from US-backed screwworm fly plant triggers protests in Chiapas
Town residents are demanding the relocation of a plant that breeds sterile flies to fight the spread of a parasite that has disrupted Mexico-U.S. cattle trade since November 2024.
In Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, clay is more than earth
It's not just clay that makes the pottery from Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, so special, but the culture of the people who make it, writes Ena Aguilar Peláez.
Acapulco will work with Quintana Roo’s tourism sector to lure back international visitors
While still a favorite coastal destination of Mexico residents, Acapulco's popularity among international tourists has waned in recent decades, partly due to increased competition. Now it plans to partner with one of those competitors.
From Elvis to the Ariels: Acapulco’s cliff divers step out of the postcard to...
An award-winning documentary reveals the human stories, struggles and courage behind Acapulco’s legendary cliff divers of La Quebrada.
Mexico’s fastest-growing states aren’t the ones having the most children
Why are Quintana Roo and Baja California Sur leading the country for population growth, even as their birth rates plummet?
Authorities present 4 new lines of investigation in Ayotzinapa case
Deputy Interior Minister Arturo Medina and Mauricio Pazarán presented on Monday four lines of investigation they consider to be new and relevant to advancing the case of 43 students who were disappeared in Guerrero in 2014, for which there have been hundreds of arrests but no convictions.
Oaxaca AG launches investigations into 6 municipal presidents with alleged organized crime ties
All six cases described by Attorney General Bernardo Rodríguez are related to Juchitán — the third-largest city in Oaxaca — and feature a wide variety of charges related to alleged organized crime activities.
