Oaxacans will celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day this Saturday, September 15, with the Cry for Independence at the Government Palace and the traditional military parade the following morning. Last year the city cancelled the events due to the earthquake of September 7, but this year it has been arranged to celebrate the Independence Cry at the...Read More

Governor Alejandro Murat Hinojosa announced that this year they will begin construction of a new Cultural Center of Oaxaca, an infrastructure project that will include an auditorium, museum and a cinema, which will require an investment of 500 million pesos. The project is currently in competition with five architects of Mexico. He also noted that...Read More

For their creativity and traditional designs, seven Oaxacan artisans were winners in the National Contest of Textiles and Rebozos 2018, who won the award for the best work, as well as the first, second and third places. and an honorable mention. With the support of the Oaxacan Institute of Handicrafts (IOA), the Oaxacans participated in...Read More

The atmosphere of Día de Muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico cannot be more enigmatic. The smell of incense is mixed with the aroma of cempasúchil flowers and chocolate; the whistle of the cold travels the narrow streets of the historic center in unison with the notes of the bands that accompany the traditional comparsas. Celebrating Día...Read More

Teatro Macedonio Alcalá bears the name of a Mexican composer, an emblem of Oaxaca, turns 109 years old this month, surviving the earthquakes of 1931, 1999, and 2017. In the first years of the last century, while campaigning for the governorship of Oaxaca, the lawyer Emilio Pimentel proposed to the Oaxacans the construction of a...Read More

Oaxacan alebrijes could be declared a tangible and intangible heritage of Oaxaca through a proposal by legislator Toribio López Sánchez, from the district of Santa Cruz Xoxoxcotlán. The lawmaker presented the initiative before the LXII legislature of the Congress of the State of Oaxaca. If the proposal is approved, both the alebrijes and its elaboration...Read More

Recognized as one of the most famous cultural icons of Oaxaca, mezcal is a distillate capable of seducing locals and strangers with its artisanal roots and great taste. The opportunity to discover the origins of the distillate, from the hand of its own producers, is an offer that few would dare to reject, even in...Read More

The U.N. world heritage committee has designated Mexico’s Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley as a mixed site, meaning it has human and natural features worthy of note and preservation. The oldest evidence of corn domestication has been found in caves in the Tehuacan valley, in the southern state of Oaxaca. Researchers have found evidence farmers were domesticating corn...Read More

Researcher Óscar Méndez Espinosa presented the first “Dictionary of the Zapotec Language”, a work in five volumes that contains 60 thousand words and integrates the basic word of all Zapotec speaking communities in Oaxaca, in its 62 variants. Although the author, originally from the municipality of San Pedro Mixtepec and currently a professor at the...Read More

To visit the convents of Oaxaca is to take a trip to a mysterious past, in which the sacred was mixed with the everyday. Here we present a journey through the splendor that is only found in these Oaxacan buildings. Discover these three colonial treasures located in the towns of Coixtlahuaca, Yanhuitlán, and Teposcolula. Its marvelous architecture will...Read More