Several people come to the Xico pantheon, this Friday in the Chalco Valley.sashenka gutiérrez / EFE
For more than a century, Mexican representations of death have constituted a prominent, if not preponderant, component of a certain national ideology.
Especially from the founding of the revolutionary regime, this certain idea of death became an essential part of the perception of Mexico abroad and of the perception of Mexicans for themselves.
The fundamental premise of this mythology has been the idea of the existence of a "special relationship" of Mexicans with death.
A certain indifference to the end of life, a family ...
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