Escritura zapoteca en los “Años de Silencio”

In 1832, Mr. Pablo Antonio Cruz of Chichicapan wrote an open letter in Zapotec to the Oaxacan newspaper El Zapoteco of proto-liberal afilliation, in which he complained about the inhumane conditions in which the indigenous laborers of the Ejutla district who were hired to build the highway to Huatulco worked. In this contribution I present an interlinear analysis of the text and a historical contextualization of this curious document published at a time when it was rare to write in Mesoamerican languages

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