The Day of the Dead festival is one of Mexico's cultural highlights,when for once cemeteries are bursting with life, nowhere more so than in the capitalA melancholy man lovingly decorates the grave of his dead wife with marigold petals and prepares for an all-night vigil. A raucous family in the same cemetery remembers their dead relative with alcohol, and chilaquiles and song. A three-year-old excitedly carries a sugar skull to his kindergarten where he will proudly set it on the school altar. A protest group sets up an altogether more sombre version external a government office to demand justice for murdered young girls.
Mexico's El Día de Muertos is colourful,poignant, mystical, and political,contradictory, satirical, or macabre and rather childish – all at the same time.
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Source: theguardian.com