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Tag: Oaxaca (Mexico)
‘Today’s Outfit Is Confidence’: Atypical TikTok Star Enchants Mexico
Middle-aged and scarred, a Mexican journalist is breaking the mold of social media influencers with a message of pure positivity that resonates in dark times.
Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice
Having arrived in the country via the Spanish Conquest, the grain’s presence poses the question: What’s native, and what isn’t, when it comes to a nation’s culinary history?
Intimate Portraits of Mexico’s Third-Gender Muxes
On the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico, a community of the local Zapotec people has long accepted — and celebrated — gender nonconformity.
Powerful Earthquake Jolts Southern Mexico and Kills at Least 6
The 7.5-magnitude quake, centered on the Pacific Coast in the state of Oaxaca, damaged some structures and caused buildings to sway in Mexico City, hundreds of miles from the epicenter.