Posted in Culture, Markets, Music, Travel & Tourism, tagged balloons, ice blocks, iceman, marimbas, markets, Mercado IV Centenario, mercados, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, street musicians on October 22, 2013| 10 Comments »
Sunday morning, walking up Avenida Morelos, The Iceman Cometh.
Arriving at Mercado IV Centenario, marimba rhythms start to play…
Down to the zócalo. As Winnie the Pooh said, “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
Sunday morning strolls through the streets of Oaxaca always make me smile.
Posted in Culture, Parks & Plazas, People, Protests, tagged Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez, buskers, graffiti, Macedonio Alcalá, Mexico, Motley Crue, musicians, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, street musicians, U2 on August 20, 2012| 2 Comments »
A motley crew…
Are you, too?
They were playing Pink Floyd — “Another Brick in the Wall.”
The “writing on the wall” refers to the assassination in March 2012 of Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez, a Zapotec community activist who had spoken out against a Canadian owned gold mine in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca.
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