If the reaffirmation of life through the celebration and mocking of death, flamboyantly dressed skeletons on parade and all-night, drunken revelries on the graves of the dearly beloved intrigues you, then you are in store for an exciting quintessential Mexican holiday.
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Despite the fact that every ofrenda you’ll see this week is sure to feature a bottle of tequila – this lively libation is not the only way to toast the souls of yesteryear.
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Traditional Pan de Muerto is a light brioche-like bread, sweet, but not too sweet, and very eggy. It’s nearly always flavored with anise seed, sometimes with lemon or orange zest, or even orange blossom water, and, occasionally, a little cinnamon or vanilla.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 10,000 Mexican families attended the Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City on Sunday, Oct. 31. The celebration of life and death parade, which included an upbeat procession of costumed marchers and alebrijes floats down Mexico City’s Avenida Reforma, constituted the first large event in the capital since the onset of the
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Cancelled last year as a precautionary measure due to the covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City’s Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) parade is back on track this year. The parade — a recent phenomenon popularized by Hollywood-style movies (specifically, the 2015 James Bond thriller “Spectre”) — is a mobile collection of
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By KYLIE MADRY Foreign Meds to Flood In Mexico’s medicine shortage will come to an end, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced at his morning press conference Thursday, Oct. 29. The country signed a deal with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for 32 billion pesos to buy medicine from outside of Mexico, which, until a few
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By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The covid-19 pandemic may still be surging in Jalisco, but that is not going to keep Mexico’s “Tapatio State” from celebrating one of the country’s most deep-rooted and picturesque national holidays, the Day of the Dead, observed on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. In order to continue the traditional celebration of Día de Muertos
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in 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 oversized
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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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