Almost two weeks before tests confirmed she was the first person to die of swine flu, doctors in the southern colonial town of Oaxaca couldn’t figure out what was wrong with a 39-year-old woman who arrived at their hospital gasping for air, her hands and

For 22 New Zealand teenagers, it was the trip of a lifetime: three weeks in Mexico practicing Spanish and visiting the pyramids of Oaxaca and other famous sites.

The man who led a five-month-long takeover of the Mexican city of Oaxaca by leftist protesters was freed from jail on Saturday, state officials said.Flavio Sosa led thousands of protesters who sealed off Oaxaca with barricades and battled police in late..