Thursday 2 November 2006
Today is Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday devoted to remembering the dead, kinda like Tomb-Sweeping day in Taiwan. It is not celebrated here, but I heard about a little celebration of it, and assumed it was being put on by the Mexican ex-pat community, so I went. As it ended up, it was an event put on by the local Mexican tourism board, and had nothing to do with Dia de los Muertos at all. It consisted mostly of old Argentine ladies getting drunk on the free wine (well, and one young American lady, too.) The only Mexican there, that I would tell, was the ambassador from Mexico to Argentina, who gave a long and boring speech about Latin American solidarity.
However, there was a neat tiny little museum with some old missionary artifacts there, and this painting was in it.
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