Mexico's Day of the Dead festival rises from the graveyard and into pop culture
Mexico City’s parade has grown bigger each year as the holiday becomes a part of Halloween festivities outside of Mexico
by David Agren in Mexico City
Oct 27, 2019
2 minutes
The models welcoming guests to an exclusive nightclub for a party to launch Mexico’s annual Formula One race, were tall, mostly blonde and non-Mexican.
Each one had her face painted with the boney features of La Calavera Catrina, the elegant female skeleton once used to mock the rich Mexicans who aspired to be Europeans, but increasingly seen as the personification of the Day of the Dead – and a
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