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How ecotoursim in Oaxaca is helping communities reconnect with their Indigenous roots
In the mountains of Oaxaca, ecotourism is offering remote Zapotec communities the chance to reconnect with the past and each other, as well as offer a more sustainable future…
Imogen Lepere
07 August 2024
A Zapotec guide in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico (Alamy)
The pine forest cloaking Oaxaca’s Sierra Norte mountains was deepand dark, haunted by the spectres of white-tipped deer and murderous raptors.
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At a wooden tablehewn from a tree trunk, guide Jonatán Cruz Ceballos demolished his hot chocolate and pan dulce (sweet bread) at such speed that his earring wobbled like a turkey’s snood. This earring has troubled local residents of his village in the Pueblos Mancomunados for seven years, ever since Jonatán returned from university in the city of Oaxaca.
Zapotec men do not wear earrings; in fact, there’s even a law against it.
“Life in the Pueblos Mancomunados is beautiful,