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Day of the Dead: Mexico's new relationship with death

2020-10-31T03:06:00.605Z


The violence without a story that plagues the country and the internationalization of Mexican iconography have opened a gap in the official mythology


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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