Oaxaca, Mexico, a popular tourist destination, has become the site of a prolonged struggle between indigenous and other residents for a better way of life and state authorities determined to crush their protests.
I visited Oaxaca in December 2006 as part of an international human rights delegation. You are invited to read the postings and comment on them. Please consider letting your members of Congress, local newspaper editors, and organizations, know about the Oaxaca human rights struggle. And pass on links to this blog.
You may send me additional comments or information directly if you wish: bob.press@usm.edu. I am an assistant professor of political science and a former international journalist.
Thank you.
Bob Press
A couple of travellers who also teach at the University of Southern Mississippi (Betty in photography; Bob in political science). The Sierra Leone blog is from our academic year there where Bob was a Fulbright scholar and Betty photographed (2008-2009).
The Oaxaca blog is from an earlier human rights trip to Mexico when state (mostly) and federal police were attacking demonstrating teachers, farmers and others.
Formerly Bob was a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor based in Kenya where my wife worked as a photojournalist.
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