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In this section they will be published the letters that for mail our readers send us, here rot to express their ideas freely and to exchange with other navigators different points of view, write us to notioaxaca@hotmail.com

Two new web pages.
Otilie Hayna (ohayna@mixteco.utm.mx)
Dear Sirs:
Allow me to introduce myself, I´m Otilia Hayna Head of Public Relations of the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca.
This University has been functioning sisnce 1990 in the mixtec region of Oaxaca, in Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca to be precisely.
I have been reading your page with quite interest and thought that your readers might like to know of the existence of two new web pages that promote two indigenous cultures the Mixtec culture and the Zapotec culture.
You can find the first culture at: http//:www.utm.com.mx and the second at: http//www.umar.com.mx
I hope you enjoy the pages, for it has been a very important project for both universities and one that we hope enlightens people on the beauty of these cultures.
I would like to take a moment as well to let you know about a bachelors degree that's being offered in Mexican Studies at the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca: http://www.utm.com.mx
If at all posible we would appreciate it very much if you contact us with a surface mail where we could send some posters and information packets about this degree.
Thank you very much for reading this letter, Sincerely yours,

Lic.Otilia Hayna de Lozanne
Vicerectoria de Relaciones y Recursos
Sacramento #406 Col. Del Valle Mexico, D.F
Tel. (5)559-9213 Fax (5)559-0892

About the "a rare dictionary id born"
By Andrea Peterson (pinopiaa@hotmail.com)
Looking around oaxaca.com, I've found an interesting article about a Zapotec dictionary.
I have to say, I'm disappointed on the whole thing, to me It's nothing more than a fraud , a lie, an exaggeration and an overall humiliating statement towards Zapotec culture.
This article has been published in a US newspaper, written by some obviously miss informed journalists an a so called Oaxacan named Felipe Lopez.
The complete article speaks lowly of the Zapotec people. I was born in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and I felt very aggravated by this article's content.
To begin, the use of the word "Indian" referring to Zapotec people is incredibly wrong; any informed person (you would assume that someone with a Master's Degree IS) would know the difference between that, and an -indigenous- person.
Indian- India
Indigenous- Zapotec Nation
Look It up in a dictionary fellow professionals.
However, and continuing with my comments about the article; Mr. Felipe Low self esteem, is not in any way reflection of a general feeling about the Zapotecx language.
I just can't see how some hurtful comments can influence a person to the point where he comes to believe, even at a grown age, that all people enjoy humiliating a Zapotec language speaker.
This resentment has, as I see It persisted in time and reflected in his comments on the article published about his co-written dictionary.
He talks about him not being able to complete the dictionary without his UCLA's colleagues support, support he considers, he would have not found amongst his own people.
!LIAR!
MI message to him is: Felipe, If you had only asked around a little harder, you would have found plenty of people willing to support your project here, in Oaxaca, Mexico. I know more than a handful of professionals interested enough in preserving our beautiful culture, as to give you a hand in your research, including myself.
You have insulted us gravely with your assumption that "Oaxacans don't really care about their native language". I ask for an apology from you to your people for this aggravation.
Sure, the US is a great place with beautiful people, I live here!, but NOTHING excuses your attitude and humiliating comments towards and about us. Instead of judging your own from a distance , come and help us with something; teach Zapotec, listen to pledges, learn from tradition, appreciate.
To finalize, one last comment about this article's title "a rare dictionary is born". Dictionary- yes, "rare"-no. I invite you to visit my home library and read more than 6 Zapotec dictionaries or visit the Santo Domingo Museum's Library.
I believe you will find plenty of evidence to dispute the "rareness"of your dictionary.
Dear fellow nationals, let's not be underestimated , us, our neighbors, and our children.
Show this man he is wrong , we DO care about our roots, we DO appreciate his work, and we would have extended him a helping hand when needed.
Regards.

Andrea Pinopiaa Fairfax,
VA. Ixtepec, Oax.

Deciphering the past to build the future
The Aztec mission
For: Guillermo Brave Ramirez (grbravo2@yahoo.com)
Montreal, Canada - When the Mexican town left Aztlan (Mexica, in Nahuatl, means: Wise Mexicano)nadie which serious the mission that would have to complete. Through the centuries, nobody has dared to say on what it consists the Aztec Mission. In 1984, the sages of the Mexicanidad (Mexicayotl) regrupados in the Confederation of the Solar Mexicanidad, published an official statement in the national press (One But One, December 11 1984 p.28) to announce to the town of Mexico that the country entered in its final route. That our old grandparents ordered to warn that to the beginning of the Second Anahuac it would begin the it finishes stage of Mexico. The Second Anahuac coincidiacon the year of 1984, it was said. The Confederation of the Solar Mexicanidad affirmed that Mexico would owe reimplantar the Mexicayotl, to come undone of all foreign influence, to restart the progress that him off fué from 1521, but it is never said that that finishes stage of Mexico was the Aztec Mission, although you could reach that conclusion for analysis characteristic of the reader. Very far from Mexico, in Canada, an almost unknown singer, Tonatiuh Uc, composed an entitled song Quétzalcoatl you has returned and you is the first time, in our opinion that somebody says that the Aztec Mission is: to destroy to the colonialism. Is ?Como able to a singer to dare to say something similar? ?Y like he made to know it? ...nada, fué their answer. "I began to write and the sentence came out alone, I didn't inform myself neither I read, neither anything. I am an ignoramus of the Mexicayotl but I believe that I already arrive the time of knowing it, of discovering it", he told us. According to the Confederation of the Solar Mexicanidad, Mexico has that reimplantar the culture, to come undone of all that is of foreign origin and to restart the progress. They speak of culture, of progress. He understands each other that Mexico should come undone of the Spanish language, to adopt Mexican mathematics (Mayan, Teotihuacanas, etc.), the Aztec calendar and all that is part of the culture to leave the underdevelopment that we were imposed from 1521. While the such Tonatiuh Uc us confrontation speech, without saying it, us speech of war. ?Sabian the Aztecs which serious their mission? Surely that not, otherwise they had left it written. Serious ?Cual, then the mission? The only reason so that the Aztecs abandoned Aztlan it was the one of fulfilling the mission. Behind of them everything faded, everything became hostile, they could not return behind, the only option was to advance, always ahead. Even, the sentence that lasts is Meshica tiahui": !Mexicanos, ahead! If one makes a small analysis of the mission of any big civilisacion of the history serious ?Cual the mission of a great town that he abandons origin sulugar to complete it? Him but easy it is to imagine that that town would have to face a GREAT WRONG. In the case of Mexico that GREAT WRONG would be attacked Mexico, America and to the whole world ...y which serious that GREAT WRONG? To Moctezuma he is announced from Aztlan: "foreigners of the other side of the sea arrived and they will destroy everything". soon after they arrived of the other side of the Spanish sea, Portuguese, French and Englishmen and the culture Aztec satiny fué. Of Alaska to the Patagonia languages and come people's of the other side of the sea customs were adopted". Of Alaska to the the Patagonia you extranjerizo to the continent. To the Aztec of North and South America (all the towns come from Aztlan", he tells us the history), included Mexico, appellative change and he is called " Indian ", without keeping in mind that the Aztec comes from Aztlan, not of India. If it is analyzed a little, all that come of the other side of the serious sea the GREAT WRONG to which the Aztec town would have to face ...y like? The GREAT WRONG you installs in North America, there, the conquerors were never deshalojados, they never lost and they installed the scorn without measure for the Aztec race and all the other races of the current world. There they settled the Reservations, the Ghettos and of there they will colonize to Half East, Africa (aparthaid), Asia (Hong Kong, Korea, Vietnam, etc.); of there it is invaded Panama, Granada, is bombarded Iraq, yugoslavia, Libya, etc. That GREAT WRONG razes with the culture of Mexico, America and he threatens to all lospueblos of the world. THE AZTEC MISSION With riezgo to make a mistake, we can say that the Aztec Mission contains two intimately united parts. You cannot fulfill the half and to leave the other half for but late. They have to be applied the two parts from the mission to the same tiempo.1-La culture, 2-Marchar toward the north. The first one consists on to implant the Mexicayotl and to come undone of all foreign influence for, in that way, to leave the underdevelopment in benefit of the Mexican race and of all the other ones. The second consist on going toward the north to liberate Mexico, America and to the whole world of the constant threat of the colonialism. It is of being supposed that the Aztecs from all America and the Aztecs of all the corners of the planet (all the towns come from Aztlan") they are clever to be part of the great epic poem that will be directed by today's Mexicas. All the Mexicans, not a group neither an organisacion,sino all. The world observes with interest that he makes Mexico, because, without knowing it, it is sensed that it should be advanced by the road that our country chooses. ?Es that the Aztec Mission? Probably if, probably not. He/she would be necessary to speak to them from the matter to specialists of the question to arrive to final unaconclusion. Meanwhile, we will continue ahead. ! !Mexica tiahui!!

The conjecture of Fermat (agarcia@moomsa.com.mx)
For my compatriots' reading: and for those that they like the anecdotes of mathematical. From Minatitlán,Ver. of a Oaxaqueño. Thank you.
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INVITATION TO SEMINAR OF MEXICAN CULTURE (cei@puebla.megared.net.mx)
Hello to all the interested ones in knowing more about the history and culture of Mexico and Oaxaca. We are offering a Seminar of Mexican Culture in the House of the Cultura Oaxaqueña in the month of August of the 2000. The seminar will consist of three independent courses whose topics will be: The Prehispanic world, colonial Mexico and Muralismo and literature of the Revolution. Each one of the courses will be imparted by experts in the topic and it will be very interesting to relate that done in the course with visits guided different places of Oaxaca like Monte Albán and Sacred Domingo. Oaxaca is a you take care that it allows us to experience all the cultural wealth that there is in our country, since their traditions, food and hospitality are only in Mexico, if he is interested you write us an e-mail to gjstcedeh@alo.com and we will send you all the necessary information.

BE NOT SAD FOR MI. (gaviotapg@yahoo.com)
Me siento en paz, no tengo ya mi cuerpo físico que me limitaba el volar. Muriendo, acabo de nacer y mi espíritu es libre para ir por doquier. Estoy lleno de alegría y satisfecho por haber cumplido mi misión de amor y regresar a la luz de donde vine. Fui acompañado en mi regreso por los ángeles y el maternal cuidado de María, estoy contento de traerme conmigo de la tierra todo el amor de mi familia ,de mis amigos y la gente que me amaba. Sí hubieras podido ver mi corazón, verías que latió más que en vida al ver a Jesús que me esperaba...., me abrazó, si pudieras sentir lo que sentí, y como me dijiste mamá en las últimas horas terrenales "Tú podrás verle a los ojos a Jesús y sé que gozarás al sentir su mirada de amor de eternidad". No lloren por mí, ahora sé que los lugares que en la tierra yo admiraba, solo eran esbozo de la belleza que aquí veo; disfruto del verde de los bosques, con aroma de pino y de rocío. Soy polvo de estrellas que atraviesa las cascadas disolviéndome en el agua, a veces soy mar, exuberante naturaleza, tonos verdes, arco iris o rayo de luz, o simplemente camino sobre las aguas de un tranquilo lago violeta. He encontrado las respuestas y misterios de la vida, ahora sé el ¿por qué a mí?, y vivo sin limites de amor. También descubrí que soy ángel y por eso me era difícil vivir entre los hombres, tenía que ser como ellos para sobrevivir en ese mundo y decidí no perder mi esencia y regresar a donde estoy. Sí pudieras verme armar y jugar en el Universo, sentirías lo que yo siento al crear maquetas con los astros, mezclando estrellas y asteroides, encontrando vías que no imaginaba como la vía láctea. Los trenes de la tierra son ahora los planetas, construyo y reconstruyo, me recreo en la majestuosidad de las galaxias. Me divierto y bromeo con otras almas polvo de estrellas y a veces con pequeños y traviesos angelitos. Estoy en paz, NADIE ME HIERE, NO HAY DOLOR NI DESAMOR EN ESTE ESPACIO, todo es paz y armonía, me siento feliz en el amor de Dios y en el que tú me tuviste en mi paso por la tierra. Puedo estar contigo y en el Universo en el mismo instante, no hay distancias ni tiempo, SOLO AMOR. Y cuando tú me llames o yo quiera que tu sientas todo esto, vivirás la vida, sentirás el viento, verás la flor, olerás la tierra o mirarás el cielo, o simplemente tu espíritu se llenará de fuerza y de energía, y tu mente - corazón recordarán que te amo , y mi sonrisa.
Raúl. Mayo 99. (Escrito por su mamá en comunicación espiritual con Raúl)

Greetings from Guadalajara!! (claudiou@hotmail.com)
Correspond to who: Hello, my name is Claudio Uribe Lic. in sciences of the communication in the UNIVA (University of the Valley of Atemajac) in Guadalajara Jalisco, and current student of the licentiate in Biological Sciences in the OR of G (University of Guadalajara) before anything else I want to congratulate them for its excellent page, it is simple and functional, besides complete. Recently I went to a congress of handling of natural areas and an exhibitor spoke something about the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and of a project that he has United States to make a channel like that of Panama, this person exposed some pictures of satellite of the area in which you could appreciate as the fires that had just happened in the place they traced the theoretical route of the channel of the Isthmus exactly (something curious), you/he/she was also spoken of the ecological impact that would cause besides she practices it expropriation of that area on the part of the UNITED STATES. In the most attentive way, I would like to receive information about the topic, if it is that this it is in the measure of their possibilities, I am very interested and I am documenting at this time he/she stops in a next future to organize a small group of pressure against such an event. Many thank you are attn to their orders. José Claudio Uribe Plascencia

I NEED HELP (vaniajocelyn@hotmail.com)
Hello!. my name is VANIA JOCELYN CONTRERAS CARDOSO, and I am student of the licentiate in economy, in the Superior School of Economy of National Polytechnic Institute, and I am gathering information on the production of the corn in the state of Oaxaca, this is to know if some influence exists of this in the production of the primary sector and this way to be able to make my tesina, since I find that this sector in particular, much of side has been left at the present time, knowing that profit can still be taken out. I wait they can help me to continue my investigation, sending me some useful data. For their generosity and understanding, thank you The technique to the service of the Homeland"

Hello dear compatriots (exbautista@aol.com)
Hello like they are, the reason for which I write them is that the elections are already come in June and hopefully everything is clear, we have to choose a ruler that represents us to all the Mexicans, non ,nomas to some, I am so far from my homeland because in my country one is not able to, we have to look for a gbierno system for all that the interests of all citizen are respected, oh that to finish with the corruption, the dedaso, that damned abito of being made of the fat view, to diminish the poverty in our country, I am of a valley of towns for the coast where the presidents municipal an requested by years that you help us with the highway but or less decent, no, with, highways for dogs; we have to finish with this it seals of government that has stolen him wing nation per years, he has stayed in the gobernatura per decades (7), the one that stayed in the power per years was the Soviet union, in mexico we speak of democracy, we tell him there is Cuba that wing democracy moves, but seeing it well with regard to the PRI is same, in the last Porfirio Días he/she stayed for 30 years, the town fights for democracy, Porfirio control to Timber to the jail and it seals it it continued, in brazil in government gave food to its people for the vote, in Argentina there was also war and the hunger continues. Bolivia is another as mexico, the one that sends is the strong one and look like it follows its country. I want to be sincere in Mexico had had a change, but I don't eat all they wanted that we all moved to the same address that the tecnology, the thing this very desaproporcionada in mexico, the Mexicans that we are here wanted to vote to choose our government but unfortunately it was not possible, they say that the congress Mexican non aprovo the law for the wet ones to vote, because they know very well that here habemos 30 million Mexicans and it can be the difference in the vote, because we see in another way the thing, it is everything of this umilde mixteco, excuse my Spanish, he/she didn't already many years ago practice it. Greetings to all my Mexican siblings, bye, love you very much, Juan.