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A Different Kind of Day of the Dead

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     While practically every town in Mexico observes the Day of the Dead holiday in one way or another, nobody does it quite like the people of Tempoal de Sánchez, in the eastern coastal state of Veracruz. The tiny farming village in Veracruz’ northern Huasteca Alta region, with a population of just 15,000, has been celebrating the festival

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Mexico’s Night of the (Elegant) Living Dead

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Back in the 1910, Mexican printmaker, engraver and newspaper cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada frequently used images of human skulls and bareboned skeletons to make political and cultural critiques of what he perceived of as the absurdities of Mexican society. One of his most famous skeletal images was that of Catrina, an elegant skull dressed only in an

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