Word: oaxaca
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...scarcity of Weber blue agave in Jalisco has meant that some distilleries have quietly augmented their supply with cheaper agave from the southern state of Oaxaca--outside the officially designated zone. Sales of Oaxacan agave to Jalisco have roughly doubled in the past year. Mexican regulators are trying to crack down on the rogue suppliers and buyers and have closed at least one distillery. The smuggling also threatens production of tequila's less tony cousin, mescal, made with unauthorized agave species or Weber blue grown outside the designated zone, by driving up Oaxacan agave prices...
...promises that the vote will be completely clean and fraud free. "I don't support any candidate because all I see is corruption and promises that are never kept," said Fidel Lopez Cruz, 67, as he pushed his crude ox-drawn plow across a small plot of land near Oaxaca. If the public concludes the results have been fixed, the new President could face a prolonged period of unrest...
...respected former mayor of Mexico City who was passed over in the presidential sweepstakes, might use the Zapatista negotiation as a springboard to an independent presidential bid. Many ruling party faithful blame Salinas' concessions in Chiapas for a sharp increase in strikes and demonstrations across the nation. Indians in Oaxaca and Guerrero states are demanding the same concessions as their brothers in Chiapas. Last week 1,000 students marching in Michoacan state to protest a rise in public bus fares burned several vehicles and threatened to set government offices on fire unless officials agreed to talk...
...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...