Word: mexicans
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...puppet show at the Peabody Museum celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead became the scene of protests denouncing the Mexican government last night. About 30 protesters—carrying black crosses and Spanish-language placards—rallied outside the show, calling attention to deaths in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where labor unions, leftist activists, and Indian groups have taken over the capital to demand the governor’s resignation. The protesters targeted the show at Harvard’s Peabody Museum because one of the event’s sponsors was the Consulate of Mexico...
...aged man falls off a seesaw in the middle of a crowded art gallery, does he make a sound? As Ogden T. Ross ’75 and a room full of fellow art enthusiasts recently learned, the answer is yes—he does.After lively opening remarks by Mexican contemporary artist Pedro Reyes last Thursday, the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery reception was thronged with eager attendees, a concerned HUPD officer, and a number of local EMTs. And the aforementioned seesaw? It was the centerpiece of the show.With his installation “ad usum...
...Dead in Oaxaca, everything is in limbo. Mexican tradition has the souls of the dead returning to visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...Mexican national congress has passed several motions condemning Ruiz and asking him to step down. But Ruiz, now re-established in his official residence, has refused to budge, asserting that each state in the Mexican federation is sovereign and not answerable the national assembly...
...half as much for twice as many issues. For the hoi polloi without a Harvard degree, content is available in an online issue. But a Harvard degree might be necessary to stand the self-awareness: the teaser for one story reads, “Think the vigilantes patrolling the Mexican border are a bunch of uneducated xenophobes? Not the one with the Ph.D. from Harvard.” Ahem. So for anyone who wants to be an occasional reader of 02138 in hard copy, FM has two suggestions: get online or start raiding a subscriber’s mail...