Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Oaxaca, Mexico – Shop owners shuttered their businesses and demonstrators built up street barricades Saturday after President Vicente Fox ordered federal ...

Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. These three bastions of extreme poverty, albeit among the richest states of Mexico in ...

In Oaxaca, Mexico, tensions remain high over concerns that the government is planning to use force to crush a populist uprising there. Over the weekend, military aircraft began flying over Oaxaca City ...

Barricades removed by the Federal Preventive Police, during their invasion and occupation of Oaxaca City since Nov 1, may be reconstructed throughout the city as early as tonight. “If hostility ...

Bradley Will captured a murder on video: his own. Will was in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca (pronounced: wuh-HAH-kuh), documenting the ongoing protests against the state government there. He was ...

The Oaxaca crisis began when the state’s school teachers went on strike May 22, demanding not only raises but bigger budgets for schools in poor rural parts of the state. Governor Ulises Ruiz refused ...

Since October, the troubled Mexican state of Oaxaca has been occupied by Federal police. They were sent in to restore order after violent protests. Now there are worrying allegations of disappearances ...

Last week, Reporters Without Borders announced that a local reporter in Oaxaca Mexico was beaten and psychologically tortured for 12 hours on the night of October 25th before being dumped outside the ...