Oaxaca, Mexico News

The winning photograph is "Mexico. Oaxaca state. Tehuantepec. 1985. Children Playing in a Courtyard." ALCOBENDAS.- Alex Webb started his education in photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, completing his academic degree with History studies at the same university.

Have you ever thought - "ohmygod this chocolate is so good I could bathe in it?" We certainly have but melting a hundred Dove bars in the tub isn't really practical.

MIAHUATLA N, Mexico - During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo's son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico.

In the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.

This photo taken Nov. 8, 2009 shows stuffing. With the roots of Americans originating in over 125... This photo taken Nov.

Pilar Cabrera serves this at La Olla restaurant in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was in Toronto in September promoting Mexican food.

A 2004 REPRESENTATION: "The African Presence in MA©xico" exhibit includes Mario GuzmA n Oliveres's woodcut "Gathering of Black Towns." VIEW FROM 1910: Agustin Casasola's portrait of a female soldier.

We issued the following statement today in response to reports that a tribunal in Oaxaca state called for the release of Juan Manuel MartA nez Moreno, who was charged last year for the 2006 killing of U.S. journalist Brad Will.

Finding yourself showered with the attentions of an exotic foreign man can be very heady.

Some chefs carefully guard their recipes, keeping their contents secret. But Iliana de la Vega, whose Oaxaca restaurant El Naranjo made her a well-known name in the cooking world, gives her recipes away gladly.

AYOQUEZCO, Mexico, Nov 7 - Years ago, when Catalina Sanchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family's living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.

There are an estimated one million American retirees living in Mexico today. Teri Gunderson is one of them like many of her compatriots, she and her husband packed up their belongings and moved south for several reasons: because their dollar stretches further when it's converted to the peso, and for a better quality and quantity of health care than ...

The Day of the Dead, El Dia de los Muertos, is a colorful, complex and ancient tradition practiced in Mexico and Latin America, with analogues occurring other countries as disparate as Brazil, Spain and New Zealand.

Lila Downs dominates the charts, and took a break from her Black Magic Woman tour to talk with Cristina, author of the super-successful TypePad blog Mexico Cooks! In an exclusive chat and photo session, the incredibly talented, beautiful and wildly popular Mexican-American singer Lila shares personal stories, marvelous music, and her thoughts on ...

On Free Radio Santa Cruz, The Maestr@s spoke with a fellow media activist, Oaxaca City resident, and parent of a school aged daughter about the state of education in Oaxaca, Mexico, where teachers mounted and led a massive uprising in 2006.

Celebrated between October 31st and November 2nd, it is a celebration in which Mexicans remember and honor their deceased loved ones.Though it may sound gloomy or morbid, it's not.

Ita TMs not clear if Brad Will understood pirate radio warnings to get out of Oaxaca a ' he knew little Spanish.

The youngsters get a taste of multicultural Mexico in Oaxaca. Photos Going to Oaxaca * Getting there: Five airlines fly from South Florida to Oaxaca with a change of planes, travel time of six hours or longer, with roundtrip airfare starting at $312. * Information: http://oaxaca-travel.com/; www.visitmexico.com. * Austin-Lehman Adventures: ...

Food, folk and fine art from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca is the focus of Expoarte 2009: Oaxaca Art and Culture Gala.

Gunmen ambushed a peasant union leader and his family in northern Mexico , killing him and 14 others in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a hit by drug cartels but one that his organization said may have been related to his union work.