Car Talk Oaxaca: Funky Honda Element Qualifies for Mexico
Some of you have followed my saga of trying to bring a car to Mexico. I recently sold the Honda CRV that I bought a few years ago with the intention of driving it to Mexico and using it here. Not possible, I found out, because it was assembled in Great Britain. Cars imported to […]
A Car for Oaxaca, Mexico: Searching for a Honda with the Right VIN
What’s a VIN? Vehicle Identification Number, for the uninitiated. The VIN indicates where the car was assembled, the manufacturer, the year of assembly, and lots of other fine details. Critical, when thinking about buy a car to use in Mexico. (Critical any other time to be certain there were no accidents or the car was […]
Witness for Peace in Oaxaca, Mexico: Advocates for Sustainable Agriculture and Immigration Reform
Several days ago, I wrote that Stephen and I were planning to attend a Witness for Peace (WFP) presentation by a U.S. delegation that had just returned from Oaxaca. Nineteen people from across the U.S. ranging in age from 18 to 73 years old, teachers, artists, and advocates participated in this delegation. We did attend […]
NAFTA, Hybrid Corn, Oaxaca Milpas and Climate Change: Which Corn Will Survive?
June 16, 2010, The Nation, Retreat to Subsistence by Peter Canby http://www.thenation.com/article/36330/retreat-subsistence Here is a lengthy and worthwhile article written about the breakdown of NAFTA promises and the pressure on the indigenous Oaxaca farmer to give up small plot farming of native corn, beans and squash (milpas) in favor of supposedly more highly productive hybrid […]