What is the significance of Usos y Costumbres?
Oaxaca is the state in Mexico with the largest number of municipalities governed by usos y costumbres, a legal framework formally known as sistemas normativos internos or internal normative systems. It is built from within the community, through consensus, through service, through the slow accumulation of demonstrated responsibility. Joahna Hernandez explains.
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