A former lawyer for the Zapatista National Liberation Army is set to lead Mexico's new Supreme Court, which held an election ...

Hugo Aguilar, an Indigenous rights defender, is leading Mexico's first popular election to head the Supreme Court. Aguilar, a Mixtec lawyer, aims to represent underrepresented Indigenous voices. The ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. Cleo is a woman of the lower class, a rural migrant who is also a member of an indigenous people, a Mixtec. Watching her interactions with the family, we ...

500 years ago, during the last days of 1519 and the first days of 1520., Hernán Cortés sent to the Mixtec region, the first expedition in charge of one of his Spanish captains, Gonzalo de Umbría.

TV news tends to be transient, so occupied by what’s now and what’s next that even while we’re rushing to file our latest three minute report – often half our mind is already on the next ...

Kate Sheridan is a science writer. She's previously written for STAT, Hakai Magazine, the Montreal Gazette, and other digital and print outlets. Before arriving in New York City, she lived in ...

For just a few coins, Mixtec children from the age of six upward work from dawn to dusk at chili and tomato plantations in the Coyahuana municipality of Michoacán. They leave their homes at five ...

Subtitles reveal the language the mother is speaking in the Dark Winds episode is Mixtec, which is the language of the Mixtecs (or Mixtecos), the third-largest Indigenous Mexican group in the country.

He wanted to focus on the music of his hometown, in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, so he asked his 97-year-old grandmother to tell him about the music played at her wedding. "She tells me it was ...