Talk:Oaxaca City

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Normalistas: The state of Oaxaca is a famous state in the world; do to its variety culture and rich ethnicity. Oaxaca is considered one of the most interesting states of Mexico. There are towns, which believe, the Spanish “conquistadores” never conquered them. Those thoughts are changing towards the mass immigration of young people immigrating to United States or even in other towns of Mexico. Many of these young immigrants, after immigrating and assimilating to the new surroundings, are discriminated. To protect themselves from being targets of harassment, because they look different they try to hide their real ethnicity. Many of them do not even speak Spanish or in times their Spanish is really limited. They are seen as wear and many people think that are not part of this society. How does this affect our indigenous society, where in many cities and in schools, we promote equality? Is equality part of an under ground world where each time is harder to find. Is this part of what the “Normalistas” are fighting for. Well, it is not rock and science, the “Normalista” are part of this fighting ideology of equality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.157.126.94 (talk) 01:04, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

The June 14 attempt to retake the city's center was carried out by 300 Municipal police, not 3000. The street battle lasted about 8 hours, not 3 days.

Who writes this crap for you guys?

The assault began at about 4:30 AM. By 9:00 AM the Municipal Police had retaken control of the zócalo (central square). At about 9:30 AM, the striking teachers, who had been joined by various peasant organizations, communists, anarchists and student groups, counterattacked the police. I was there. Please see as well as many other posts and photos.

Opinion: This counterattack was probably a result of no deadly force being employed by the police during their initially successful assault. End opinion.

By 12:00 noon or thereabouts, the Ministerial Police (formerly the Judicial Police) had to enter the city's center to rescue and pull out the Municipal Police.

Since that time, an umbrella group calling itself APPO (Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca) has taken over from the teachers. In fact, as of today, September 27, 2006, the teachers have begun returning, albeit slowly, to their classrooms. The teachers' union, the SNTE, has been appalled by the violence and anarchy which reign on the city's streets at the hands of APPO thugs. The 70,000 teachers who originally supported the strike have seen their numbers shrink to about 10,000 or so. The problems now are between APPO and the governments, both state and federal.

As of today, the APPO leadership, expecting another attempt by the police to remove them and a claimed 2000 roadblocks set up in and around the city, has fled to Mexico City. They flew out of Oaxaca International Airport yesterday. Tomorrow and Friday will see a state-wide strike or, better, a state-wide work stoppage. Just about everything will be closed down since CANACINTRA (the state Chamber of Commerce, more or less) has agreed to honor the work stoppage out of concern for the safety of workers, merchants and businesspersons. CANACINTRA executives announced their decision while at the same time demanding the President Fox send in Federal Preventive Police to retake control of the city's streets and "reestablish the rule of law" in Oaxaca.

Many people are evacuating the city todaqy and tonight, at least as long as they are able to get out before the highways are blockaded by APPO.

Contributed by Mark in Mexico.


 * Thanks for the update Mark. I live in Oaxaca, but I (coincidentally) left in June for an extended visit to the U.S. It's hard to get news about the situation here. (I'm not one of the authors of the article.) I should point out, though, that the site you linked to claims there were 3,000 police and soldiers, not the 300 you mention.
 * Rbraunwa 17:31, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Is this title form really preferred?
Is this really better than Oaxaca (city) would be? Especially given that normal Mexican cities aren't at this form, this seems really annoying. john k 17:31, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

teachers' strike - shooting of 28 October
Someone claimed that this was a "firefight" and that there were claims that the protestors themselves had guns. There is no evidence for this in either the yahoo report nor in the indymedia report, so i removed this. It may sound silly that Ms Cana blames the protestors for the fact that they got shot at, but if someone wants to quote (paraphrase) what she said, then please at least do it accurately. The yahoo report says she said "violence" - you can't miraculously interpret this as a gunfight. The only violence reported is of gunmen against protestors, so this means she blames the protestors for having provoked other people to shoot them. A gunfight is between two groups with guns, not one group with guns and one without. Anyway, please add precise citations for any claims. Boud 18:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

User:The Ungovernable Force wrote (edit summary) the AP is saying both groups fired and calls it a shootout. Well, please give a URL. Boud 18:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The Yahoo news story (which is from AP) says "Both sides fired but it was not clear who shot first." An earlier version from last night called it a shootout in the first paragraph (that was the story I originally linked to, but I guess yahoo updates their stories on the same URL as the previous version). After reading some other accounts, including Reuters, I'm starting to doubt AP's claim though. A Reuters photographer says the protesters had nothing more than fireworks and bottles, and I don't know who to believe for sure. But AP does say both groups shot at each other.  Ungovernable Force  Got something to say? 19:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, i think you're correct, i missed that earlier. BTW, for a common Western language like Spanish, you can check spanish-language sources through e.g. http://babelfish.altavista.com to at least judge for yourself whether the citation seems reasonably consistent with the source. Of course it's not perfect, but it is available. i think that NYC Indymedia should say something more about their info quite soon. Boud 20:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I personally can read Spanish with a basic level of understanding (that's all 3 years of high school gets you damn it!). I was just more concerned with other people. And I trust that it says what you say it says.  Ungovernable Force  Got something to say? 03:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Split proposal
Is anyone in favour of splitting off teachers' strike into its own page, e.g. Oaxaca teachers' strike 2006 ? There's not a huge amount of material so far, but this is a big thing and chances are it will grow. Boud 21:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

i should add that i'm not going to promise that i will necessarily do much work on the page if we split it off - it would only make sense if at least one eager person or several moderately active people want to do so and think it reasonable. Boud 23:27, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it should be spit off, but I also can't promise to do too much more work. That paragraph on the shootings is getting pretty long too. Has anyone thought of putting this on wikinews yet? That would get us a lot more editors.  Ungovernable Force  Got something to say? 03:45, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

HELP!!
does anybody no anything about Juan Cabrillo I have no clue

D H Lawrence?
I'm not convinced D H Lawrence should be included in the list of notable Oaxacans. So he visited. So what? --Ray (talk) 18:23, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Missions in Oaxaca Mexico
Theres a missions group called Global Frontier Missions in Talixiaco, Oaxaca (because Oaxaca is a state as well as a city) who are revolutionizing these 400 people groups in the surrounding areas. Their work is continuing to grow and prosper by the grace of God. God is going to do great things in Oaxaca. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.199.250.59 (talk) 01:24, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Oaxaca FilmFest section
I have tagged this section as NPOV. I have removed similar text twice, only to have it re-appear. The Oaxaca FilmFest is really insignificant film festival, and doesn't warrant even in a mention in the "Festivals and traditions" section, let alone an entire sub-section. The content here reads exactly like ad copy, of zero interest to anyone interested in Oaxacan culture. Horstvonludwig (talk) 00:06, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 14 September 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 11:19, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Oaxaca, Oaxaca → Oaxaca City – Per WP:COMMONNAME and essentially for the same reasons as this move of "Chihuahua, Chihuahua" to "Chihuahua City". Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:48, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
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need better sources other than travel-guide type websites, and in English
This area of central America has been MASSIVELY covered in scientific journals and books, and in English. This is the English Wiki and the preferred sources should be in English. Even National Geographic would be a better source than many listed in this article. The ancient civilizations of Mexico are some of the great topics in the fields of history and archaeology. 104.169.16.173 (talk) 08:13, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

No content on colonial period?
It jumps from conquest to 1832. Thats 300 years of history missing.Frijolesconqueso (talk) 01:20, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Correct Juarez's Presidential tenure in summary paragraph
The intro states Juarez served until 1878, despite every other article, including the text of this one, correctly stating he died in 1872, when the city added his name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.132.90.215 (talk) 22:13, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, thanks. (CC) Tb hotch ™ 22:19, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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