How do you say "I am innocent" in squirrel?

They had the suspect cornered and were heading straight for his nuts.


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When taking a picture of this and cropping it in Photoshop, I noticed this sentence from the newspaper I was resting on. It was as if someone was trying to tell me something.

Communication

Bahia Maguey

And finally, Bahia Maguey (which we for some reason could never pronounce properly) in the area of Huatulco on the southern coast of Oaxaca state. In particular our good friend pelican gonzalez. Adios amigo!

Rufino Tamaya Museum in Oaxaca

Here's some old stuff from the museum - a great mixture of archeological artifacts, chosen because of their artfulness by the artist Tamayo.

Monte Alban

On the plus side, the protests seem to have scared a number of tourists away from Oaxaca, meaning we had the wonderful Zapotec ruins of Monte Alban mostly to ourselves!

Oaxaca

Just back from 2 weeks in Mexico. Managed a few scribbles. Here's some:

A statue in the courtyard where the Gaia cafe bar was:

A chair in the same courtyard:

The Flor de Loto veggie restaurant sign:

Our balcony in the Casa de la Tia hostel:

Protests

I strongly recommend you read something about what has been happening in Oaxaca. There was a long occupation of the zocalo by a mix of local people, community and political groups following heavy arm tactics by the governor to break up a small teachers strike. End of November they sent in the army and shot and arrested many of the leaders of the revolt. An uneasy police state 'peace' currently hangs over the city. Thousands are still campaigning across Mexico and in solidarity across the world with the protesters. A megamarch (the 9th) took place when we were in Mexico with around 30,000 joining in to continue to put pressure on the national and local government to release the prisoners and oust the corrupt right wing governor.

The following links give some background and current news from the area, about a story largely ignored by the world's press:

• http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/oaxaca/en.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Oaxaca_protests

As for the nice photos from the trip - mi amiga took most of those. Click here if you want to see more of Mexico.