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Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsBeatrice Guerra (right) and other members of Las Monas Drum & Dance Group perform during the Museo Alameda's "Dia de los Muertos: Bodas Negras, A Celebration of Lost Love" event held Sunday Nov. 2, 2008 in El Mercado. -
Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsMembers of the Academicos da Opera Samba School peform with Las Monas Drum & Dance Group. -
Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsMembers of Las Monas Drum & Dance Group perform. -
Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsA section of El Corazon de Memoria community altar by artist David Zamora Casas in Main Plaza. -
Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsGabriela Rivera colors a Dia de los Muertos mask while attending events in La Villita. -
Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsLilianna (left) and Vivianna Avila-Farias wear Dia de los Muertos masks. -
Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsA view of the Museo Alameda's altar honoring lost loves part of their "Dia de los Muertos: Bodas Negras, A Celebration of Lost Love." -
Edward A. Ornelas/Express-NewsA detail of the Museo Alameda's altar. -
EN file photoDÂ’ia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday that honors the dead, is held Nov. 1 and 2, with the first day paying reverence to deceased infants and children and the second day remembering adults. In Mexican tradition, it's a joyous holiday. -
EN file photo2006: Dia de los Muertos altar, in memory of Selena. -
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EN file photo2003: The skulls of Pedro Marcos, left and Maria de Marcos adorned with garlands and cigarettes are decorated after being blessed by a catholic priest in a church in La Paz. One week after Day of the Dead celebrations, the skulls of relatives are brought in to the church to be blessed and decorated. Believers say they can read the future in the cigarette ashes that fall on the floor. -
EN file photo2004: Maria Euan, left, and her granddaughter Maria clean the bones of their relatives in the cemetery of Pomuch Town, in the northwestern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. In this small village, the last days of October are devoted to cleaning the bones: dusting, polishing, scrubbing and rearranging the skeletal remains of family members in time for the Day of the Dead. -
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EN file photo2002: Comales, Mexico -
EN file photo2004: Gilberto Gutierrez Silva, left, and Maria Luisa Romera Cobos of Grupo Mono Blanco get dressed for a performance of El Mundo de las Catrinas at the Gaudalupe Theater. -
EN file photo2000: San Fernando Cemetery -
EN file photo2004: Guadalupe Theater -
EN file photo2001: Brazos Street -
EN file photo2004: Guadalupe Theater -
EN file photo2002: Lima, Peru -
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EN file photo2001: Our Lady of the Lake -
EN file photo2004: San Gregorio, Mexico -
EN file photo2005: Panteon San Sebastian in Oaxaca, Mexico. -
EN file photo2005: Oaxaca, Mexico -
EN file photo2002: Tzintzuntzan, Mexico -
EN file photo2000: San Fernando Cathedral -
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EN file photo2005: San Jose Mission -
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EN file photo2005: San Fernando Cemetary #2 -
EN file photo2005: Alamo Fiesta on Main -
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EN file photo2005: Oaxaca, Mexico
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