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The Difference between San Cristóbal and Oaxaca

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Jun. × ’10

By Sarah

For two cities who share so many of the same elements – indigenous people in the streets, selling embroidered blouses and friendship bracelets; an impervious and snottily racist upper-middle class in overly tight clothes and too much makeup; tourism of the quaint-colonial-Mexico type and the revolutionary-Thai-fisherman-pant type – San Cristobal de las Casas and Oaxaca [...]

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The Difference between San Cristóbal and Oaxaca

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