Tensions running high in Oaxaca, Mexico
Gone are Oaxaca’s familiar nighttime sounds of tinkling marimba music and vendors hawking chocolate or traditional fried grasshoppers, replaced by gunfire, the roar of burning tires and shouts from bands of men armed with clubs. Protests in this picturesque colonial city that began with a teachers’ strike in May have ballooned into a political battle against state Gov. Ulises Ruiz. Full Story