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Oaxaca

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 23: Area clergy, family members of kidnapped and disappeared immigrants and others march around Federal Plaza to protest against the situation for millions of Central and South American migrants along the US-Mexico border on May 23, 2013 in New York City. Arriving in New York City after traveling for 20 days across the country, members of the 'Brotherhood of the Road' shelter in Oaxaca, Mexico and the The New Sanctuary Movement held a news conference in front of Federal Plaza where they discussed the humanitarian crisis along the border for the estimated 70,000 people who have disappeared in their attempt to reach the US-Mexico border.

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About Oaxaca

The Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca or simply Oaxaca wɑˈhɑkɑ (help·info) is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the southern part of Mexico, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Oaxaca borders the states of Guerrero to the west, Puebla to the northwest, Veracruz to the north, and Chiapas to the east. To the south Oaxaca fronts the Pacific Ocean.

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