Mexico Safety November 2009
We walked at night arm-in-arm through the streets of Oaxaca and Puebla, two women, sisters of middle age (though, of course not looking it), linked together now though one from the east coast, the other from the west, coming to a common meeting place to travel together. Mexico is a place for strolling and we […]
One Journalist’s View (on Mexico) by Linda Ellerbee, National Public Radio
[I received this from my friend Roberta Christie, who lives full-time in Oaxaca, Mexico. It repeats and what many of us have been saying about Mexico for some time — this is a warm, friendly and, yes, safe country to visit.] Sometimes I’ve been called a maverick because I don’t always agree with my colleagues, […]
Oaxaca, Mexico–Safety 2009
The news is alarming and the media is giving hyper-attention to the drug cartel killings and kidnappings happening in the states that border Mexico and the U.S. The media talks as if this was a universal problem across Mexico — and this makes me angry. Yesterday, I listened to the Diane Rehm show on NPR […]