World View

Mexico Study Visit

June 15-28, 2002

Vivian Harvey, the group’s coordinator in Cuernavaca, gives an orientation at Cemenahuac Language School.

Professor Nelly Salgado of the National Institute of Health briefs the group on emigration and the changed role of wives who assume new household responsibilities after their husbands migrate to the U.S.

Honor students at BuenaVista elementary school practice for the “respect the flag” ceremony, observed every Monday morning.

BuenaVista students having an English lesson.

The first floor work area in BuenaVista’s maquiladora where 1500 pairs of pants are manufactured each week. There are 400 employees, many of whom live in surrounding communities and board in BuenaVista.

BuenaVista leather mastercraftsman, José, personalizes leather keyholders as gifts for each member of the

group.

Charlie Goff, co-founder of Cemanahuac and the group’s guide in Mexico City, briefs on current events in Mexico.

The group at Quinta Los Flores in Cuernavaca.

Wrap-around tile mosaic on the library building at UNAM (Autonomous National University of Mexico) in Mexico City, with a student body of 300,000.

It takes many soldiers to catch the flag and roll it up in the zócalo in Mexico City.

The Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City with a Mexican-made, energy-efficient taxi in the foreground.

The group absorbs Mexican social history in Diego Rivera’s murals in the The National Palace, which now houses the president’s administrative staff.

Rooftops of the old and new basilicas of the Virgin of Guadelupe in Mexico City. One can observe how the old basilica is sinking into the ancient lakebed of Lago de Texcoco underlying Mexico City.

On the grounds of the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadelupe, this scene depicts Juan Diego showing his tilma with the image of the Virgin to Bishop Zumárraga. Juan Diego was canonized by Pope John Paul II at the end of July 2002.

A view from the first level of the Pyramid of the Moon, showing the Pyramid of the Sun and the Avenue of the Dead in Teotihuacan, first settled around 100 BCE and inhabited by a population of nearly 200,000 until 700 CE.

A private university in Tehuacan on the grounds of a former mineral springs health spa.

Rene Velazquez Herrera, Director of the Euroamericana University, addressing the group on the need for university-business partnerships.

A tortilla making machine in Coixtlahuaca, a small village on the way to Oaxaca, which was readying food to celebrate the feast day of the town’s patron saint, John the Baptist.

The group meets some of the “teacher buddies” at Posada de Chencho, the group’s hotel in Oaxaca.

The Basilica dedicated to the Virgin de La Soledad, the patron saint of Oaxaca.

A Monday morning “respect the flag” ceremony in the Child Heroes of Chapultapec Elementary School in Oaxaca, led by six honor students—all girls.

One of the classes at Child Heroes of Chapultapec Elementary School.

The observatory at Monte Alban in Oaxaca State, constructed around 700 BCE and inhabited by the Zapotec people until 750 CE.

Carved wooden animals (alebrijes) in the workshop of mastercraftsman Sr. Manuel Jimenez, in Arrazola, Oaxaca State.

The daily schedule of the telesecundaria (TV school) in San Lorenzo, a hilly village in Oaxaca State.

A Zapotec style house near the telesecundaria school in San Lorenzo.

At Hierve el Agua (The Water Boils) mineral salts have created what appears to be waterfall.

The group’s guide, Pablo, explains the geology of Hierve al Agua.

The traditional method of tilling the soil in rural Oaxaca State.

In front of the temple in Mitla (Oaxaca State), an important archeological site settled by the Zapotecs in 1000 BCE.

A class salutes during practice for the “respect the flag” ceremony at the Melchor Ocampo Kindergarten in Tlacachuyaya.

Debbie Thompson of Robeson County gives a gift of school supplies to Principal Aguilar and some kindergarten students.

Lynn Knauff of World View and Jason Coleman of Alamance Community College present a Circuit City donated boombox to Juan Solano, the Assistant Director of a secondary school in Tula.

Sr. Isaac Vasquez, master carpet weaver and owner of Bug in the Rug in Teotitlan del Valle, describes spinning and weaving processes alongside one of his relatives, who is carding wool.

“We are farmers, not assassins.”

A protest group on the zócalo in Oaxaca.

A sax player near balloon corner in the zócalo in Oaxaca.

Oaxaca dancers at the Guelaguetza farewell dinner outside of Oaxaca.