"Things are so much quieter now, " said Rogelio Vallesteros, who runs a Spanish-language school in Oaxaca City.
At the same time, special areas of bio-diversity, like Oaxaca, could choose to maintain a total ban.
Once Abigail and Brian decided on Oaxaca, I was quick to say that I would soon be visiting.
The Salvadoran foreign ministry said unidentified gunmen stopped a freight train in Chahuites, in Oaxaca state, last Thursday.
Almost all the villagers who live in the forested mountains of Oaxaca, the Sierra Norte, have relatives there.
Like many indigenous Mexicans from Oaxaca, the Vegas are short, squat and dark.
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President Barack Obama's oldest daughter, Malia, age 13, was on a school trip in Oaxaca when the earthquake hit.
In short, their self-image is that he is an illegal immigrant from Oaxaca.
Forecasters expect the storm to produce up to 4 more inches of rain in Veracruz, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Puebla and Tlaxcala.
Tempting low-fat choices include Yoshi's Asian Grill's avocado-cucumber sushi and edamame, Roadhouse 66 Bar's veggie burgers, and Oaxaca's vegetable burrito.
If Oaxaca is part of Mexico's deep south, Tijuana, home to many maquiladora assembly plants, is in its dynamic north.
By that time, they were already beginning to think about Oaxaca, Mexico.
Prior to the 1986 Amnesty, Mejia wanted to return to Mexico and wired money to build a house in Oaxaca, in southwestern Mexico.
Bautista, 19, had saved up money to buy a gold ring for Maria Isabel, his childhood sweetheart from their indigenous village in Oaxaca, Mexico.
This (albeit much smaller) force is most active in Oaxaca, next to Chiapas, and in Guerrero, which has more insurgent groups than any other state.
Since 1997, for example, indigenous folk in Oaxaca, Mexico, have been encouraged by the Mexican government and the World Bank to establish community forest enterprises.
Cooking classes in Oaxaca, I figured, could only improve his technique.
But in Oaxaca, in Mexico's poor south, where illiteracy, at 19%, is double the national average, many parents still need their children's help in the fields.
One spokesperson for Fortuna Silver explained that there are over 530 municipalities in Oaxaca and each one has a slightly different culture and way of seeing things.
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Rainfall could cause "life-threatening" flash floods and mudslides, the center said, with some spots along the Oaxaca coast likely to get 12 to 15 inches of rain.
That sentiment is found even in places once linked with political tension, such as Chiapas state and Oaxaca City, where political protest turned into a stand-off in 2006.
The only dispiriting part of the meal was the realization that this stay in Oaxaca was presumably the only foray into expatriate living that Abigail and her family will make.
Ed Moreno, Fresno's public-health officer, points to the enormous differences between recent immigrants from rural areas at the moment, the city is seeing an influx from the Mexican state of Oaxaca and American-born Latinos.
Oaxaca is also known as a place where artisanal mescal thrives and tequila is spoken of as an inferior commercial tipple that might as well have been produced in the Coca-Cola bottling plant.
She had even figured out what would likely be my favorite restaurant in Oaxaca a simple place called La Teca, which specializes in the food of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest part of southern Mexico.
In Oaxaca, the state government hopes to pass legislation in the coming legislative term (ie, the next six months) to launch a five-year reform process leading to the formal installation of a new legal system.
Having spent some time in Oaxaca many years ago, I knew that it also turns out an astonishing variety of the small treats Mexicans call antojitos many of which consist of something in or on masa, the dough made from alkaline-treated corn kernels.
Fortunately for those with a tooth for it, the artisan mezcaleros in places like the mezcal heartland of Oaxaca still craft the old fire-smoked, close-to-the-soil nectar, a drink as specifically rooted in its origins and as various in its outcomes as fine wine.
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Following his arrest in Oaxaca last year, Habacuc Cruz Cruz, a union organiser in the state, says that he was severely beaten and kept for three to eight days at a time in a tiny cell without light or ventilation, which measured just one square metre.
When she decided that my visit, not having included any museums, was short on cultural content, she took me to the Palacio del Gobierno and showed me a three-hundred-kilo tlayuda made of real masa and covered with, instead of beans and meat, depictions of life in Oaxaca.
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