Community rallies around teachers; crackdown on strike blows lid off pressure cooker in Oaxaca, Mexico.(FIRST PERSON)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: October 13, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Letters from Oaxaca: First in a series

One of the many things I love about Mexico is its different relationship to time. While we of the North hold stereotypes about habitual lateness and a lazy way of life, another dimension of this relationship rings true. Oaxaca is home to a 2,000-year-old ahuehuete, the most ancient tree in the world. From the window of our apartment, we can glimpse the ruins of Monte Alban, an architectural masterpiece and astronomical observatory whose first layer dates from 500 B.C. And once when I asked a friend, Don Max, about his community, he began, ...

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