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1-2 holiday — "Dia de los Muertos" — that mingles Catholic customs with rituals indigenous to Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil and parts of Ecuador. And it's not just a byproduct of Latin American migration across the United States. Dia de los Muertos..R.I.P. VI. It is the Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. It [...]

Vangie Vasquez, of San Bernardino, paints the face of Aparna Mannickarottu, 6, at a Dia de los Muertos celebration at the Olive Avenue Market in Redlands. ((Kristina Hernandez, Staff)) An altar honoring those who have passed on display outside the Sugar skulls await their fate on Mexican holiday Dia de Los Muertos.Windows 7 users can [...]

Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca. just under a mantle of blue purple mountains, lingering veils of copal incense, join the black iron crosses, white lilies, and prayer. families here are quiet. women with long black braids joined at the Sarah Stough (left) and Mary McCullough sign their name to the large skull at the Fiesta del [...]

Next week isn't just Halloween, it's Dia de los Muertos — Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday celebrating loved ones who have died. Most people gear up for Halloween parties as October comes to an end. With all of the costume planning Vangie Vasquez, of San Bernardino, paints the face of Aparna Mannickarottu, 6, [...]

By JORGE PORRAS, STAFF WRITER Every fall, as Anglo families are digging out from under Halloween candy, Mexican-American families are celebrating Día de los Muertos, or day of the dead. The Nov. 1-2 holiday's origins date back hundreds of years and is Photographs / Ericka Clevenger As a neurotic Jew who deeply fears death, it [...]

El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), a Mexican celebration, is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed. On this day in Mexico, the streets near the cemeteries are Amidst your stroll (read: tightly weaving through the wall of people in costume, trying [...]

By Mayra Flores de Marcotte Traditionally speaking, the celebration of the dead or Dia De Los Muertos is Nov. 1 and 2. The tradition of celebrating the life of the dead through food, arts and family is a custom that originated in Mexico. Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is being celebrated [...]