Halloween and Day of the Dead 2025 will fall on standard time weekend for an extra hour of sleep or celebrating Dia De Los Muertos for pets, babies and all that have passed. While Halloween is not ...

Towards the end of October and beginning of November, Mexico is awash with the vibrant colors of papel picado and lit by candlelight to welcome a more than 3,000-year-old celebration: Day of the Dead.

Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead, is a Mexican holiday celebrated this weekend to honor and celebrate deceased loved ones. The tradition of the Day of the Dead stems from the Aztec, ...

San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico (CNN) — The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in ...

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Día de los Muertos is a holiday to honor and celebrate the lives of deceased loved ones, not a Mexican version of Halloween. The celebration takes place over two days, with Nov. 1 honoring children ...

It is also a staple at Day of the Dead Mexico gatherings and at many Mexican holidays. Tamales are a pre-hispanic food made from masa, which is the same maize dough (corn dough) used to make corn ...

Mr. Lomnitz is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of “Death and the Idea of Mexico." Joyful. Ironic. Soulful. Intimate. These are some of the words that have ...

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