Oaxaca

OSCAR GONZALEZ from the State of Oaxaca works as a cook in New York. He sends home $350 a week.

Oaxaca is one of Mexico's most ethnically diverse states, with one of its most complicated governments.

Venice happens to have one of the largest concentrations of migrants from Oaxaca anywhere outside of Mexico.

A small leftist group said it placed the devices to support a five-month uprising against the PRI governor of the southern state of Oaxaca.

GROSVENOR: I came to Oaxaca hoping to make it better, hoping to help Oscar find an answer to why death came for his dad.

To an increasing number of Mexicans from the poor southern state of Oaxaca, however, it is also a home.

In a joint venture with Spanish utility company Iberdrola, Mexico is building a massive wind farm in the southern state of Oaxaca.

Salvadoran foreign ministry said unidentified gunmen stopped a cargo train in the state of Oaxaca in the south of Mexico on Thursday.

Mudslides also affected Mexico, where 11 people were missing in a remote village in the southern state of Oaxaca.

In the Oaxaca Valley, Spencer found evidence of a royal palace and a multi-room temple dating to 300-100 B. C.

Cirila Baltazar Cruz comes from the mountainous southern state of Oaxaca, a region of Mexico that makes Appalachia look affluent.

Adolfo, 29, had to leave his small mountain community in Oaxaca, Mexico, to find a paying job.

New York ranked sixth, followed by Istanbul in Turkey, Cape Town in South Africa, Oaxaca in Mexico and San Francisco.

One night, weeks after Beau's memorial service, I woke from the deepest part of sleep with Oaxaca on my mind.

Death was everywhere in Oaxaca. It was impossible to avoid a direct confrontation.

A protest turned deadly in the Mexican city of Oaxaca leaving an American fatally wounded.

The three states it lost, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Sinaloa, had been ruled by the PRI for 81 years.

The tiny hamlet of some 400 Triqui Indians lies in the north-west of the state of Oaxaca.

According to Reforma, police were removing the blockades and freeing access around Oaxaca's historic center.

Tropical Storm Matthew has worsened the rains in Oaxaca in recent days.

He is leading a land renewal and economic development program in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Oaxaca is 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic colonial glory in green quarry stone, luminescent after rainfalls.

For example, wood artists in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico have been carving mask face coverings and toys for hundreds of years.

Last year, a California court took custody of the U. S. -born twin babies of another indigenous, undocumented migrant from Oaxaca.

Shortly after my mother passed in 1993, I went to Oaxaca, Mexico on assignment during the Days of the Dead celebration.

The Hmong girl in Oakland is texting to her Mexican boyfriend in San Jose who is on Skype with his abuela in Oaxaca.

"oaxaca - bus burning and the [federal police are] in the corner waiting" by Ilanhelman

Historic Center of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte

Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca