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Primavera Oaxaca continues to provide aid to the productive sector to get the coast back on its feet.
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Primavera Oaxaca continues to provide aid to the productive sector to get the coast back on its feet.
The management of temporary jobs is underway through the Young People Building the Future program.
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. July 1, 2025.- The State Government continues to provide direct attention to the productive sector affected by Hurricane Erika. Following the instructions of Governor Salomón Jara, a list of applicants was sent to the Financiera para el Bienestar (Finabien), which authorized 70 loans to tourism service providers.
The State Tourism Secretariat (Sectur Oaxaca) reported that residents of eight communities in the Villa de Tututepec de Melchor Ocampo region were included in this list.
In addition, he explained, temporary employment is also being arranged through the Youth Building the Future program, which will help get the coast back on its feet.
These actions are in addition to the beach cleanup efforts in Puerto Escondido's Main Bay and Zipolite Beach in San Pedro Pochutla, and in communities in the Villa de Tututepec de Melchor Ocampo, such as Cerro Hermoso, Campamento Cerro Hermoso, Chacahua Isla, Chacahua la Grúa, El Zapotalito, and El Azufre; as well as in Mariano Matamoros, Corralero, and Paso de la Garrocha, in the municipality of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional.
This cleanup involved the removal of 259 tons of debris using three backhoes and 27 dump trucks. One thousand 64 brigade members from the Oaxaca Ministry of Public Works (Sectur Oaxaca), Ángeles Verdes (Green Angels), municipal authorities, the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena), the Ministry of the Navy (Semar), the National Guard (GN), volunteers, and members of the Mexican Workers' Confederation (CTM), with the support of the federal Ministry of Tourism, which contributed machinery for these tasks, participated.
Likewise, with 80 Sectur brigade members, municipal authorities, and volunteers, 50 kilograms of tortillas, 500 sheets of corn, 50 cartons of eggs, 9 tons of corn, 260 bags of semolina pasta, 150 mattresses, and, in coordination with the State DIF, 2,294 basic food baskets were distributed in the towns of Tututepec, Santa María Colotepec, and San Pedro Mixtepec.
The reactivation of the Coast is advancing rapidly with these actions of the Oaxacan Spring, which are reinforced by the Well-being Census of the tourist area of Villa de Tututepec de Melchor Ocampo, in the communities of Chacahua la Grúa, Chacahua Isla, Cerro Hermoso Campamento Cerro Hermoso, El Zapotalito, Roca Blanca, and La Encomienda.
July 2025 A Land in Between: The Istmo de Tehuantepec July 1, 2025 The Eye Mexico
A Land in Between: The Istmo de Tehuantepec
By Randy Jackson
If you were to drive east from Huatulco for about two hours, you’d arrive at a narrow neck of land where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans nearly meet. You’ll know you’re there when you see a landscape covered by hundreds of windmills and feel and hear the force of wind as it hurtles against your vehicle. These are the Tehuano Winds, born from the clash of cool northern air spilling down from the Gulf of Mexico and the rising heat of the Pacific. Channeled through the Chivela Pass in the Sierra Madre, they come roaring toward the coast, sometimes with the force of a hurricane.
This region, known as the Istmo de Tehuantepec, is one of the eight distinct regions of Oaxaca, and it’s known for far more than wind. It’s a crossroads in every sense: a cultural crossroads between the heartlands of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, an ecological crossroads bridging diverse geographical zones, and now, with the Interoceanic Corridor project, a potential crossroads for global trade.
Ecological Crossroads
The Istmo de Tehuantepec is an ecological crossroads. While the southern portions near the Pacific are dry and windswept, the northern reaches include part of Mexico’s largest tropical rainforest, the Selva Zoque, home to much of the nation’s biodiversity. This varied topography also gives rise to pine-oak forests and more than 300 species of native orchids.
The Istmo holds an extraordinary range of ecosystems within this relatively narrow band of land. There are cloud forests in the Sierra Madre, coastal lagoons along the Gulf of Mexico, and everything in between. Its geographic position bridges the flora and fauna of North and Central America, creating a vital migratory and evolutionary corridor where species from different regions meet, interact, and adapt.
Cultural Crossroads
For millennia, the Istmo de Tehuantepec has served as a crossroads between the heartlands of the Mesoamerican civilizations. The first of these civilizations was the Olmec, widely recognized for their iconic colossal stone heads. Their civilization was centred just to the north of the Istmo in the lowlands of the Gulf of Mexico. Later, as the Olmec declined, the Zapotec civilization emerged in the Valley of Oaxaca.
Archaeological finds suggest trade between these two civilizations, with goods like obsidian and jade traversing the Istmo between these two powers. Trade also existed in later times between the Maya civilization, located south and east of the Istmo, and the formidable city-state of Teotihuacán in the valley of Mexico.
Today, the Zapotec are the principal indigenous group of the Istmo, and their identity here is distinct. The Zapotec language in the Istmo differs significantly from the version in the Valley of Oaxaca. There are also cultural differences, such as the matrilineal social structures in the Istmo compared to the more patriarchal structures of the Zapotec of the Valley of Oaxaca. Other indigenous groups in the region of Istmo de Tehuantepec are the Mixe, roughly centred around the area of Matías Romero, and the Huave (they call themselves the Ikoots), located around San Mateo del Mar on the Pacific coast.
Global Crossroads – Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor
Among the defining projects of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Interoceanic Rail Corridor may turn out to be the most transformative. Beyond the potential benefits to Mexico overall, the state of Oaxaca, particularly the Istmo de Tehuantepec, could develop into an economic engine. Spanning 303 kilometres (188 miles), this rail link connects the Pacific port of Salina Cruz in Oaxaca with the Gulf port of Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz. Its aim is ambitious: to serve as a land-based alternative, or complement, to the Panama Canal, allowing cargo to be offloaded at one coast, transported swiftly across the Istmo, and reloaded on the other side.
The corridor project aims to stimulate industrial growth in southern Mexico through major infrastructure upgrades, chief among them the modernization of the Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos seaports. To draw private investment, the federal government plans to establish ten industrial parks along the route, offering tax incentives to companies willing to build and operate there.
The project is well underway. The expanded seaports are already under construction, and the rail line now has limited passenger service between the two coasts. One of the most high-profile developments tied to the corridor came in December 2024, when President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a $10 billion USD green hydrogen facility to be built by Helax, a subsidiary of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. Scheduled for completion in 2028, the project signals a push toward sustainable industry in the region.
If fully realized, the Interoceanic Corridor could mark a historic shift in Mexico’s economic geography, channeling investment and opportunity toward the poorer southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. The road ahead, however, isn’t without obstacles: land disputes, environmental concerns, and questions about who truly benefits, especially among local Indigenous communities.
For centuries, the Istmo de Tehuantepec has stood at the intersection of movement and change – a crossroads where two oceans, multiple climate zones, and cultures converge. The Istmo continues in its role as a landscape of transition and is now, possibly, a passageway for global trade.
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