Mexico’s Day of the Dead Parade Pays Tribute to Quake Victims<br />29, 2017<br />With faces painted as skulls and bodies made up like skeletons, throngs of performers marched through the streets of Mexico City on Saturday in<br />a Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) parade in a country still mourning the nearly 500 people killed in back-to-back earthquakes last month.<br />An 8.2-magnitude quake — the most powerful to hit Mexico in a century — struck off the Pacific Coast shortly before midnight on Sept. 7, setting off tsunami warnings, burying hundreds of people under collapsed buildings<br />and scattering frightened residents into the streets.<br />Ramón emblazoned that For us as a society, it was something very violent that moved our conscience,<br />All paraded down Mexico City’s main thoroughfare to kick off the annual Day of the Dead festivities<br />that run through Nov. 2 with rituals continuing in town plazas, homes and cemeteries leading up to All Saints’ Day.<br />Then, on Sept. 19, a 7.1-magnitude quake struck about 400 miles from the epicenter of the first one, toppling buildings, cracking highways<br />and killing more than 200 people in Mexico City, the capital.<br />They were joined by a group wearing fluorescent aid-worker vests who marched with fists in the air — a tribute to the rescuers<br />who had made the gesture to demand silence as they listened for desperate survivors in the rubble from the second quake.
