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As a late addition to   our previous posts on Chiapas, in which we featured the church at Oxchuc , notable for its surviving posa chapels,  ...

July 25th is the feast of St James Major, better known in Mexico as Santiago. To mark this day w e return to northern Tlaxcala to visit the ...

The mixed race painter Miguel de Cabrera (1695—1768) was the leading and most prolific artist of his generation, famous for his luminous lat...

  For another in our occasional series on notable early colonial doorways, we go to  San Francisco Soyaniquilpan in Mexico State. The conven...

Winding up our current series on Chiapas we visit the community of San Felipe Ecatepec.    Located beside a sharp curve in the Pan American ...

The celebrated church of San Juan Chamula, the dominant structure in Chamula center and traditional focus of religious life there, was origi...

In this post we revisit the northeastern highlands of Chiapas, a region known in colonial times as Los Zendales—a corruption of Tzeltal—one ...