Authorities in Mexico City have found inspiration in the most unlikely of places in their bid to give the country’s UNESCO-protected Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations a boost.
The result is a mixture of Halloween, the hit TV show The Walking Dead and Rio’s Carnival, and images of the event are a welcome contrast to all of the bad news coming out of the country.
Dario Lopez-Mills APThe UNESCO-protected indigenous Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico last several days and celebrate the temporary return of dead family members and loved ones.
The tourism sector has been hard hit from the violence, while US authorities issued a travel alert in early 2016 after 203 US citizens were killed in Mexico in the years 2014 and 2015.
The parade did not exist before the James Bond film Spectre was released.
Fuente original: Traditional customs in Mexico: Mexico looks to James Bond to end tourism blues | In English | EL PAÍS
