PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a preview to the Mexico’s internationally acclaimed two-day Day of the Dead celebrations, which are observed each year on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, more than 600 ghoulish skeletons, zombie-like walking dead and fantastic multihued creatures took to the streets of Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 29, in a promenade of horror and moribund fun. This
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A colorful pageant of hundreds of oversized winged dragons, gargantuan multihued insects and superhuman-sized Catrina walking-dead dolls took to the streets in Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 22, as the now-iconic Monumental Alebrijes Parade got underway at the capital’s Zócalo central plaza shortly after 10 a.m. The parade, which was heralded in a concert of spooky-toned music
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexico City government will host a gala Day of the Dead parade on Sunday, Oct. 31, the city’s Culture Secretariat announced Monday, Oct. 11. The parade, which will begin at noon in the capital’s central plaza Zócalo and proceed 8.7 kilometers up Avenida Juárez and Paseo de la Reforma to the Campo Marte
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF More than 30,000 people took to Mexico City’s streets on Saturday, June 26, in part of the LGBTQ+ community’s pride celebrations. Waving rainbow flags, and other banners specific for communities across the sexuality and gender spectrum, the paraders took Avenida Paseo Reforma down to the Zócalo in the heart of the city’s center, with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For the 12th straight year, a pageant of hundreds of oversized winged dragons, gargantuan multihued insects and superhuman-sized Catrina walking-dead dolls took to the streets in Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 21, as the now-iconic Monumental Alebrijes Parade got underway. The parade, which this year was heralded in by a spooky-toned blues concert courtesy of Bandula and
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