Your memory serves you quite well Fiddlstix. Perhaps not as much as its next-door neighbor to the south, Chiapas, but still quite a bit. The original Mexican "homegrown" drug operations depended upon Oaxaca for marijuana and opium poppy cultivation, making the state pretty much "off limits" to federal authority. But that also brought underdevelopment along with it, because it scared development away. And if you go very far back you will find that Oaxaca was the center of violent revolutionary activity going back to Emiliano Zapata.
Could you please explain why this was moved from "News/Activism" to "Bloggers and Personal"? This is a published editorial on a situation which threatens mass civil disorder in Mexico, immediately south of our border. I have obeyed the rules here and I respectfully argue that this belongs back on the "News/Activism" forum. This is not a "personal blog."