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Día de los Muertos slideshow

Día de los Muertos isn’t a time to mourn. But in Mexico more than 40,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006 and launched a war against the drug cartels. All who have died for whatever reason are remembered and even celebrated on November 1 and 2, All Saints’ Day... Read more »

By Teresa Puente,
November 1, 2011 at 11:05 am

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Sandra Cisneros honors her mother for Day of the Dead

A bottle of perfume, massage balls and a tiny figurine of Dumbo. These were some of the favorite objects of author Sandra Cisneros‘ mother. And they are integrated into an ofrenda, or an altar, that she built for her for the Dead of the Dead exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago... Read more »

By Teresa Puente,
September 27, 2009 at 11:40 pm

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