(28 Oct 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 27 October 2024
1. Woman with face painted dancing with fire sticks during parade
2. Various of Catrina parade
3. Various of large butterfly puppets
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Laura Nuñez, merchant:
“Let these traditions not be lost and just as we are right now, peaceful, getting along well, let this not be lost. Let it not be any fights or arguments in the street. Everything peaceful, that we continue like this.”
5. Various of A group of Catrinas with outfits that represent pre-Hispanic culture in parade
6. Catrinas dancing
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Leticia Adasa, Secretary and dancer of the parade:
“It’s all part of being Mexican, we are Mexican, traditions must be followed, because it is super important to let the world know what our culture is.”
8. Public waiting for the parade, with Catrinas makeup
9. Various of concert before the parade, the musicians were also made up like Catrinas
10. Skaters dressed as Catrinas spin before preparing for the parade
11. Dancers settle in before the parade begins
12. Women wait for the parade, with Catrinas makeup
STORYLINE:
Mexicans dressed as skeletons took to the streets of their capital on Sunday in the annual Catrinas parade.
Dancers and people of all ages filled Reforma Avenue in Mexico City with color as revelers wore costumes and face paint to imitate the dapper Mexican skeletal figure known as “La Catrina.”
“It’s all part of being Mexican, we are Mexican, traditions must be followed because it is super important to let the world know what our culture is,” said Leticia Adasa, a dancer in the parade.
Skeletal images have abounded in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times.
But in 1910, when Mexico was living under the exclusionary policies of dictator Porfirio Diaz, illustrator José Guadalupe Posada sketched the image of La Catrina as a tool for social satire.
AP video by Amaranta Marentes
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