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People in a Mexico City Day of the Dead parade from previous years, dressed up in colorful gowns and wearing skeleton masks in the style of Day of the Dead calaveras and standing on a float that features a bust of Frida Kahlo with a crown of flowers.

Mexico City announces date of 2024 Day of the Dead parade

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The parade, always one of Mexico City's most anticipated events, will featured nearly 6,000 participants, including 16 musical groups.
Monterrey's Santa Lucía Festival

17th annual Santa Lucía International Festival kicks off in Monterrey

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One of the most anticipated events is a live-to-film concert of The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack by Danny Elfman on Oct. 31.
Art of the Story San Miguel

A new, genre-bending 3-day festival comes to San Miguel de Allende

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The Art of the Story festival wants you to forget what you know about creativity and embrace the new and unknown.
John Wayne as a Mexican cowboy

The original Cowboys come from Mexico

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It's no surprise that in the lands that were once Mexico, those that drove the cattle and pioneered the great ranches were Mexican themselves.
history of the Instituto Allende

Colonial prosperity, architectural grandeur and the future of Mexican art

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San Miguel's art wonder is internationally recognized - but the story behind it's grand buildings is less known.
A older man looks up at screen that reads "Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia" at the 2024 Morelia International Film Festival

22nd annual edition of the Morelia International Film Festival opens Friday

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American director Ford Francis Coppola will be a special guest at the festival, which will feature hundreds of Mexican and international film screenings.
Que Mexico se Vea, Mexican Netflix shows

What Mexican projects is Netflix bringing in 2025?

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With the announcement that Netflix will be investing unprecedented sums into producing new Mexican shows and movies, what projects can we look forward to for 2025?
Guillermo del Toro in Scotland

How Mexico’s greatest movie director fell in love with Scotland

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How did Guillermo del Toro end up obsessed with the land of kilts and haggis?
Black and white photo of Frida Kahlo looking at a painting she's working on of a portrait of her father, Guillermo Kahlo.

Researchers have a new diagnosis for Frida Kahlo, 70 years after her death

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A new study suggests Kahlo suffered from Cauda Equina Syndrome, a condition caused by the injuries she suffered in a bus crash when she was 18.
XER radio station, a border blaster

Border blasters: The outlaw stations that changed radio

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From quack doctors to the first country music broadcasts, high-powered Mexican radio stations brought the U.S. into the age of mass culture.
Cover of Perras de Reserva, which was translated into English as Reservoir Bitches

In ‘Reservoir Bitches,’ Dahlia de la Cerda narrates the raw reality of being a woman in Mexico

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The feminist movement has permeated Mexican life, and Dahlia de la Cerda's "Reservoir Bitches" proves that literature is no exception.
Two Baja California cowboys on horses

The wild cowboys of Baja California

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Cowboys were crucial in making Baja California the place we know today — and they're still around.
Mexican student Ángela Elena Olazarán poses for a photo with graphics of robots in the background

17-year-old student from Veracruz wins Global Student Prize 2024

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Ángela Elena Olazarán created an artificial intelligence software tool that can diagnose diseases in Spanish and Tutunakú, a local Indigenous language.
Dancers on a stage

International Cervantino Festival to highlight Brazil and Oaxaca this year

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The long-running festival celebrates music and high art from across Mexico and the Latin world, bringing together musicians and actors alike.
Many of the artifacts that Mexico has recovered are thanks to a federal government task force that works with local authorities abroad to seek judicial redress and halt auctions in major cities.

Mexico repatriated over 14,000 archaeological artifacts during AMLO’s term

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The #MiPatrimonioNoSeVende campaign, launched in 2021 by Mexico's Culture Ministry, has helped to retrieve 14,048 pieces of cultural heritage.
La Alborada fireworks

San Miguel de Allende’s bonkers firework throwing festival

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An epic battle between good and evil culminates in a pyrotechnical battle for the ages as the World's Best City becomes awash with revelry.