Today: Oaxaca festival in Mexico highlights indigenous pride

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Jul 26, 2010

Oaxaca festival in Mexico highlights indigenous pride

The Chirinos Chinas family
The Chirinos Chinas family are performing in the Guelaguetza
An old Mexican man, with a big moustache and wearing a wide sombrero, ambles into the sunlit Benito Juarez auditorium in Oaxaca City, clutching a live, twitching turkey.
Looking around for his fellow villagers, he passes rows of vividly embroidered traditional dresses, pineapples with red ribbons tied round their middles in bows, and thousands of sombreros like his own.

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