Word: oaxaca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cardenas campaign was an eight-month odyssey in search of people he calls the "forgotten ones." He stayed in hotels so unpleasant that journalists covering his campaign refused to enter them. Says Campaign Aide Carlos Torres: "We talked to the Yaqui Indians in Sonora, the Triques in Oaxaca, the Mazahuas in Mexico State. We went to see them. We didn't have them brought...
...Glen Ellen, Calif., close to the Sonoma vineyards. The interior is vibrant, bursting with the warm, roseate tones of the landscapes the author loves -- Provence, Mexico and California. Each room testifies to the range of interests of the occupant. There are floor tiles with the soft black gleam of Oaxaca pottery, bright peasant rugs, wreaths of silver-green bay leaves and garlands of dried black-red chili peppers, leaning towers of books, phonograph records on and under tables, and paintings stacked against and hung on rough- painted white walls. Through it all moves the shadow of a calico cat, Zazie...
...every major election in Mexico since its founding in 1929, had last month absorbed its worst defeat ever, losing nine municipal and five legislative seats in two northern states. On the eve of last week's elections for the legislature in the impoverished southern state of Oaxaca, where leftists had been successfully organizing, and wooing, local peasants, another P.R.I, loss seemed imminent. Yet when the votes were counted, the P.R.I. had swept all 17 seats. The opposition immediately accused the ruling party of having used ten-year-old voters, a drunken electoral representative and out-and-out ballot...
...P.R.I.'s tactics in Oaxaca may have seemed inconsistent with the government's widely publicized goal of tolerating pluralism, but the government has more than political reasons for trying to maintain control of Oaxaca. Although the P.R.I, has tolerated defeats in the north, Oaxaca is dangerously close to Guatemala, the site of last week's coup and gateway to the Central American quagmire...
Kahlo was no passive victim of her husband's machismo. She was a tiny, tough-mouthed daughter of a photographer of Hungarian-Jewish descent and a strikingly attractive woman from Oaxaca. Frida herself had a gamy beauty that drew lovers of both sexes. There seem to have been dozens of them, including Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian revolutionary who died in Mexico shortly after a Stalinist agent put the point of an ice ax through his head. Frida initiated the affair with Trotsky, not because she found "Piochitas" (little goatee) attractive but because she thought...