Due to the impressive colonial architecture and nearby pre-Hispanic ruins, in 1987, the UNESCO foundation declared the city of Oaxaca a World Heritage Site. However, to understand what made the United...

Visit Oaxaca for gorgeous Mexican vacation, corporate meeting or a family vacation, Oaxaca has every the amenities to provide you the outstanding experience. There are several theatres for your enter...

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Guadua ranks arguably as the best restaurant and bar in Puerto Escondido in terms of both ambiance, and quality and creativity of fare. In fact for this reviewer it's ...

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Driving a car in Oaxaca has always been dangerous, be it using your possess or a rental vehicle (look my earlier article entitled Driving in Oaxaca: Rules of the Road). But w...

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. First-time travelers to Oaxaca, as well as return visitors and snowbirds, can every help to improve the financial lot of many struggling residents, aside from simply visit...

I've been living in Oaxaca for over 11 years now and I feel more at home here than in the Big Apple where I was born. When I first got here, I was going back to the states once a year but now I haven'...

Oaxacan Clay Spirits Container Has a Curious History in San Bartolo Coyotepec Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. Chango Mezcalero has become a very collectible folk art item whose history has been recounte...

Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. Driving in Oaxaca, Mexico, became a little more difficult in September / October, 2009. That's when federal, state and municipal governments actually began enforcing the ...

Internationally acclaimed Oaxacan cook Pilar Cabrera (NY Times, Bon Appetit) has expanded the roster at her well-known downtown Oaxaca cooking school, Casa de los Sabores (home of Flavors...

I remember back in the States I would arrive at the bus cease, check the bus schedule that was posted there and sit down patiently for my bus to arrive. The schedule said that my bus was going to arriv...

David Hornick seems an unlikely candidate to guide a housing project in Oaxaca; his Spanish is sparse, he's never ventured to the region, he's never built a home, and he's lived virtually every his life ...

Oaxaca is a haven in many rights.... beautiful valleys, delicious food, exciting tours, ancient Zapotec ruins, colorful traditions and warm, friendly people... but eventually you're gonna need to go t...

!Mexican Insurance - Things To look In The State Of Oaxaca!

The state of Oaxaca has many natural sites to look beyond the beaches, which are spectacular.  Some of those sites are around the m...

In the sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, the local inhabitants - the Mazatecs - have a way of communicating over long distances without the use of phones. The region is diverse, characterized by carpet...

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. La Catrina de Alcalá ranks amongst the city’s finest restaurants, rather unsual since most other restaurants within two blocks of the Oaxaca’s zócalo manage to receive by ...

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B It won’t win any contests for being a quality spirit. And in fact residents of the region don’t even call it mezcal, but rather “recicado,” a Mixteco name, they say. Bu...

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Every Sunday Gloria awakens at 3 am, and begins preparing tejate, a frothy, tasty corn and cacao based drink, which she will offer for sale in the Tlacolula market. A c...

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. The rural mezcal producers of Oaxaca keep the tradition as pure as it was centuries ago. They pepper the villages and roadsides where tourists rarely venture. Their op...

Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. An international documentary film production company was drawn to the central valleys of the State of Oaxaca while investigating regions of the world where sustainable liv...

Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. Comic strips, a young Canadian's self portraits, and photographs of violent deaths in a Mexican daily newspaper, make odd bedfellows. But they constitute a major part...