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Traditional Day of the Dead in Mexico City

November 2nd, 2010 by JUAN MANUEL CRUZ AVILA
JUAN MANUEL CRUZ AVILA
Ecatepec de morelos, Mexico, North America
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Pati y Arturo comprando flores en el mercado de Jamaica
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Arturo seleccionando flores
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Pati y Arturo realizando las ultimas compras
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Pati y Arturo caminando por los pacillos de Jamaica
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Postal del mercado de Jamaica con Pati y Arturo
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Entrada principal del panteon de Dolores
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Pati y Arturo caminando a la tumba de su hijo
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Pati y Arturo en la tumba de su hijo, realizando limpieza.
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Pati limpiando la tumba de su hijo.
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Arturo saludando a los cuidadores del panteon de Dolores
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Arturo adornando la tumba de su hijo.
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Arturo terminando de adornar la tumba de su hijo.
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Tumba con musicos,
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Musicos tocando en la tumba de una persona.
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Adornando la tumba de sus muertos.
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Tumba adornada.
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La familia acude a visitar y adornar la tumba de sus difunto.
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Danzantes rinden tributo a la muerte.
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Familias acuden a adornar la tumba de sus muertos.
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Ofrendas a un costado de las tumbas.
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Gente que acude al panteon de Dolores.
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Cementerio de los hombres que lucharon por México, soldados y tumbas abandonadas.
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Tumbas abandonadas con 100 y 200 años.
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El general desconocido.
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Tumba de 1906
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Rotonda de los Diputados fallecidos en el constituyentes de 1917.
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Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres
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El flaco de Oro. Agustin Lara
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Amado Nervo.
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Diego Rivera
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Diego Rivera
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Dolores de Rio
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Ema Godoy
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Jaime Torres Bodet.
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Vicente Lombardo Toledano.
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Manuel M. Ponce
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Mariano Azuela.
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Rosario Castellanos
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Silvestre Revueltas.
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The day of the dead is celebrated across Mexico every year as part of a tradition to honor and remember the dead. Mexico City, Mexico. 02/11/2010

As every year on 2 November it is a very special day for Mexicans, millions come to visit the departed in the country's cemeteries on the Day of the Dead. The graves are decorated with flowers and smoke of burning incense, with music played throughout. Mexicans come and live with their dead, and to eat food with their loved ones.

In the early hours Mrs Pati Arthur with her husband went to one of the famous markets of Mexico City, the Jamaican market, known as the flower market. They visited various places to find suitable flowers for her son's grave in the midst of so many people. They chose the marigold flower.

They then travelled on the underground to one of the oldest and famous cemeteries, where the remains of some illustrious persons are buried, Diego Rivera, Agustín Lara, Dolores del Rio, the writer Emma Godoy, Silvestre Revueltas, Manuel M. Ponce, Siqueiros and one of the best novelists, Mariano Azuela Mexican Revolution and many more illustrious persons. As the hours go by Pati and Arturo cleaned the grave of their son and slowly begin to decorate it, greet some carers and other families they have known for 5 years.

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JUAN MANUEL CRUZ AVILA
Ecatepec de morelos, Mexico, North America
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