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The office of Oaxaca’s attorney general has opened an investigation. Locals from the town of Llano de Guadalupe, have been feuding with San Miguel El Grande, 14 miles (22 kilometers) south for ...
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths [1]: 195 and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). The conflict emerged in May 2006 with the police responding to a strike involving the local ...
Oaxaca, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, [b] is one of the 32 states that compose the Federative Entities of the United Mexican States.It is divided into 570 municipalities, of which 418 (almost three quarters) are governed by the system of usos y costumbres (customs and traditions) [8] with recognized local forms of self-governance.
Statutory holiday: Holidays observed all around Mexico.Employees are entitled to a day off with regular pay and schools (public and private) are closed for the day. Civic holiday: These holidays are observed nationwide, but employees are not entitled to the day off with pay, and schools (public and private) still continue.
The southern Mexican state of Oaxaca banned the sale, distribution and advertising of junk food and sugary drinks to children on Wednesday, becoming the nation's first state to do so. Members of ...
OAXACA, México (AP) — Leticia Santiago carries her ancestral heritage wherever she goes. Every time she addresses the crowds during the Guelaguetza, the biggest cultural event in southwestern ...
The Biosphere Reserve of Huatulco is declared by the UNESCO in Oaxaca. January: The Other Campaign; January 25: Juana Barraza is apprehended. February 4: Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers incident. February 19: Pasta de Conchos mine disaster; March: Santiago Mexquititlán raid; April 10: 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust; April 17: Maltrata bus crash
The conflict culminated in 2006 with the clash between the state of Oaxaca, led by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the indigenous autonomy movement, led by the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). APPO was formed in June 2006 during the teacher strikes as an alliance to oppose Oaxacan Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. The ...