La Cruz de Huatulco also resisted the loss of dozens of pieces that became so many relics in the churches of much of the country. But as his fame was growing Cruz, Huatulco lost, definitely, any options for progress. In 1848, Benito Juárez asked the media to open a "wagon road" which would link with Huatulco Oaxaca, but would have to take a little more than a century for Huatulco again flooded with merchants, artisans, ship owners and people arrivals Uttermost the world. In 1984, the Federal Government began working on the creation of Huatulco resort, with the work of the National Fund for Tourism Development (FONATUR) transformed in a few years, thanks to their economic backwardness, was and is a unspoiled paradise. Today, the warm nine bays of Huatulco, which contain no less than 36 beaches, as well as inlets, coves and other smaller shelters, hosting more than 200,000 tourists a year in its excellent luxurious hotels, including no shortage of large international firms. Pools, underwater, sport fishing, pleasure yachts, a great golf course and the tranquility of the huts sandpipers (in Mexico, palapas) are vying for the interest of the visitors who come to the evening, with a modern and safe center holiday boutiques, restaurants, seafood restaurants and nightclubs (The Crucecita) and ongoing opportunities to extend your trip to the beautiful inland populations or continue exploring the rest havens that still holds the coast. In Oaxaca are celebrated all festivals, religious and profane, local and national, the personal and the community. The holiday schedule is sometimes as large as the market, with the celebrations share to serve as a meeting place and stage manners. The ultimate party is the "Guelaguetza", the festival of mutual offering, but many of them have a sense of "Guelaguetza", participatory and community sense. At parties revisit the past through the dances, the costumes, the calends - processions with Chinese paper lanterns and marmots huge fabric with candles inside - or the altar for the dead, Day of the Dead, as related to the traditional way of life of indigenous communities to build their houses over the graves of their ancestors.