In Oaxaca, Indigenous People Are the Vanguard
The southern Mexican state of Oaxaca is known for its tradition of left political militancy. And its indigenous people have often been at the vanguard of that struggle.
A. S. Dillingham teaches Latin American and native history at Albright College and is the author of Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico.
The southern Mexican state of Oaxaca is known for its tradition of left political militancy. And its indigenous people have often been at the vanguard of that struggle.