Yosoyuxi

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proper noun

A village in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A village in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

    In 1934 he attacked the village council composed of former Carrancistas from the barrio of Yosoyuxi.

    2009, Benjamin T. Smith, Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca, Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, page 171
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    On May 20, 2010, Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, a founder and leader of MULTI and of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, was gunned down in his home in Yosoyuxi, as was his wife, Tleriberta Castro.

    2013, Lynn Stephen, We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements, Duke University Press, page 231

Origin

  1. Mixtec
  2. SpanishYosoyuxi
  3. EnglishYosoyuxi

Borrowed from Spanish Yosoyuxi, from a Mixtec language.

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Translations

Spanish Yosoyuxi
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APA

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