OAXACA, Mexico – Tens of thousands of Indians in the southern state of Oaxaca who orient their lives around the sun have decided not to move their clocks forward one hour for daylight savings time, which went into effect on Sunday in Mexico.
Indians in 418 Oaxaca municipalities who live according to their own “uses and customs” have maintained this position for the past 14 years, saying the time change is imposed on them without their consent and brings them no benefits, different indigenous spokespersons told Efe on Tuesday.
Some 3.8 million people live in Oaxaca’s 570 municipalities, 70 percent of whom are Indians belonging to 16 ethnic groups.
“We use God’s time here, not the government’s,” one Indian in the Oaxaca town of Magdalena Jaltepec, part of the Mixtec region, said when asked why his people refuse to move their clocks forward like the rest of the country.
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- Christopher Stowens
- Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Gracias, pero no - No Daylight Savings!
Mexican Indians, Teachers Oppose Time Change
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