Mask Making at El Instituto

El Dia de Muertos

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November 8th 2013
El Dia de Muertos Its 3am, long past Closing Time, but in the village cementario of San Antonio Arrazola,10 miles west of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, the party has just begun. This is the first night of El Dia de Muertos, the Day of the Dead. The graveyard is alight with hundreds of tall candles and campfires, tombstones are topped with mounds of newly dug soil ( ominously resembling new graves ... read more

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more