Oaxaca is a beautiful place and anyone used to be able to walk around there in the middle of the night with no problem. It has wonderful food and for the most part, wonderful people. It went down hill (surprise) after the “populist” (really communist) uprisings last year. The same leftist idiots, Subcomandante Marcos and like, who ruined Chiapas have now started in on Oaxaca. At one point the normal people of Oaxaca had a counter-demonstration against the Leftists, which resulted in bloodshed.
Los Hermanos Sosa (that’s “the Sosa Brothers” for you non-Spanish speakers), the leaders of the Oaxaca rioting, were arrested in December. Fox wouldn’t move on it, Calderon did. That is *some* progress.