What is the importance of Dia de Los Muertos in Mexico?

Dia de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead—is a lively Mexican holiday that draws on indigenous and European traditions. read more

You can read an article I wrote about it here: Dia de los Muertos: More Than Just Mexican Halloween It’s an important holiday in Mexico, and it has a very old origins that predate the Spanish conquest. read more

The celebration of the Day of the Dead – which is actually a week of festivities which begin on 28 October and end with a national holiday on 2 November – is an integral part of this embracement of death that is particular to Mexican national identity. read more

A Dia de los Muertos altar for Mexican singer Juan Gabriel, created by Amparo de Jesús Rincón Pérez, of the National Council for Culture and Arts in Mexico City, and officials from the Dallas Mexican Consulate, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. read more

Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, which spans Nov. 1 and 2, is a tradition that’s been celebrated for thousands of years, tracing back to indigenous tribes in Mexico. As the Latino population grows in Dallas and elsewhere, it’s become more mainstream and is lumped in with Halloween festivities. read more