In Mexico, skull faces to scare away US-style Halloween

MEXICO CITY, Mexico --- Mexico's Day of the Dead is almost here, so on weekends the streets teem with Catrinas --- people dressed up with elaborate skull faces that recall an old symbol of Mexican political and social satire in a bid to fight an invasion of US-style Halloween celebrations. AFP took photos of some of the thousands of parade-goers who wore wild, colorful costumes and had their faces turned into that of death itself by expert body painters. Jessica Esquivias, a procession organizer, was dressed all in black, with a big red-and-white flower arrangement atop a fancy hair-do and a thick string of pearls around her neck. Her skeleton face features huge teeth and eyes....

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