Oaxaca
El Tornillo Bridge Is Oaxaca's 1.25 Billion Peso Bet on the Interoceanic Corridor
The bridge drops the Mitla-Tehuantepec highway from 1,800 meters to the isthmus lowlands. The engineering challenge has been as difficult as the funding.
Oaxaca
Mexico's culinary and cultural deep end , seven moles, mezcal, Zapotec and Mixtec heritage, Monte Albán, and the state where indigenous identity isn't a museum piece but a living, daily reality.
Fiction
The Red Ink
At a public university in Oaxaca, every phantom worker's contract was signed by the same hand. The auditor following the money to Panama realized the missing 103 million pesos was supposed to fund the laboratories and scholarships the Constitution promises are free.
Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes Wants Your Next Pour of Mezcal
Aguascalientes has 1,500 hectares of agave and zero share of a 38-billion-peso mezcal industry that Oaxaca controls with 85 percent of certified production. The state governor just installed a council to change that.
Protests
Teachers Union Blocks Oaxaca Airport Access in Escalating Protest
CNTE teachers block the main road to Oaxaca International Airport and occupy a Pemex fuel terminal in an escalating protest.
Salina Cruz
Second Fire in a Month at Pemex's Salina Cruz Refinery. One Worker Is Already Dead
A fire at Pemex largest Pacific refinery Sunday night is the second incident in under a month. The May 11 explosion killed engineer Victor Lopez Matuz. No casualties reported this time, but the pattern is building.
Oaxaca
Nine Tourists Murdered in Oaxaca — and the Tourism Industry Says 'It's Safe'
Violence rocks Oaxaca: 9 missing tourists found dead, 5 men killed on highways. Tourism sector fears cancellations in Huatulco and other spots. Promoter downplays events, insists area is safe, urging visitors to come.