Regresamos a Oaxaca

Jenna and I have returned to Oaxaca, and I´ll be writing from here over the next six months. The city is much as we left it, although traffic seems to be worse as a result of the government´s grand plan to create something like 10 more blocks of pedestrian-only streets in the historic center. From the little I hear, businesses are screaming because there are no tourists coming to the city now--an enduring result of Oaxaca´s political instability the past year and a half--and it´s generally tourists who shop and sight-see in the historic center. So the streets downtown are all torn up and nobody is happy about it.

That´s the quick update. I hope to write more, with more perspective, very soon.