Chantal Flores

MEXICO CITY —  On the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, two groups of dancers, the Santiagueros and the Pilatos, fight in the atrium of the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City. In their respective red and black velvet dresses, the young dancers jump back and forth while their wooden

MEXICO CITY — In the early morning Thursday, families arrived at San Lorenzo Tezonco Cemetery in Iztapalapa, east of Mexico City, with brooms, flowers and candles to spend the Day of the Dead with their dead loved ones. Cempasúchil and celosia flowers surrounded graves on Calle 7 as families swept the dust, hung strips of papel picado