Flowers, bones, voodoo mark Day of the Dead
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MEXICO CITY Mexicans cleaned the bones of dead relatives and decorated their graves with flowers and candy skulls. In Haiti, voodoo practitioners circled an iron cross at a cemetery and poured moonshine to honor their ancestors. Some Guatemalans held a wild race of horses to remember the dead. Across the Western Hemisphere, people are paying homage to lost relatives in observances that began Thursday on All Saints Day and continue Friday with All Souls Day. The combined celebration known in many places as the Day of the Dead is a particularly colorful and macabre festival in Mexico that harks back to the Aztecs but has become part of Roman Catholic traditions. "In the European-Christian notion of death, our loved ones go far away and we're left to survive on our own.
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Elio Masferrer
Overall Sentiment: -0.116378
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| -0.0468837 | "In the European-Christian notion of death, our loved ones go far away and we're left to survive on our own. But in the Mexican case, in Andean countries, the world of the living and the dead co-exist," said Elio Masferrer, ... |
| 0.101361 | "The living seek help and protection from the dead, especially on the Day of the Dead," Masferrer said. |
| 0.375874 | "It's none of this playing a harp in a cloud, family members have to feed them and between today and tomorrow they will leave their favorite food at the table and leave the door open so they can walk in," Masferrer said. ... |
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Paula Maria Cuc Euan
Overall Sentiment: -0.166831
Relevance: 0.679176
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| 0 | "rezador" or prayer man whispered The Lord's Prayer at a cemetery in Pomuch in the southeastern state of Campeche, while Paula Maria Cuc Euan, ... |
| -0.292683 | "I've been doing this since they died," Cuc Euan said ... |
| -0.200306 | "I've been doing this since they died," Cuc Euan said as she returned a femur to a wooden crate lined with padded fabric decorated with hand-knitted flowers. "My mom died 32 years ago, and I have been doing this ever since." |
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Hilarion Ramos
Overall Sentiment: -0.0248711
Relevance: 0.622957
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| -0.32746 | "My little boy left 33 years ago, but I don't forget him. I still have the memory of his little face in my mind," said Ramos, ... |
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Lucila Mamani
Overall Sentiment: 0.242108
Relevance: 0.591793
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| -0.0959416 | "Death is very sad so this allows me to remember with joy (the life) of the deceased. That's how we Andeans are. That's why I hire the musicians to play here," Mamani said. ... |
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Blanca Jimenez
Overall Sentiment: 0.0465326
Relevance: 0.536831
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| 0.479719 | "It's a re-encounter with our loved ones," Jimenez said. ... |
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Jean-Robert Pierre
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.485536
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| -0.0701619 | "Today is the day we come to celebrate the people who have died, the people we haven't seen in a long time," voodoo priest Jean-Robert Pierre said ... |
| -0.0662705 | "Today is the day we come to celebrate the people who have died, the people we haven't seen in a long time," voodoo priest Jean-Robert Pierre said as he carried a bottle of rum. "We're celebrating our ancestors." |
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Virgen de Lourdes
Overall Sentiment: -0.234367
Relevance: 0.455336
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Country: Mexico
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.788862
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Country: Haiti
Overall Sentiment: -0.0468635
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Country: Bolivia
Overall Sentiment: 0.255155
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Country: Guatemala
Overall Sentiment: -0.0411849
Relevance: 0.467766
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City: Port-au-Prince
Overall Sentiment: 0.0715383
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City: MEXICO CITY
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City: Tonacatepeque
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City: San Salvador
Overall Sentiment: -0.134728
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StateOrCounty: Campeche
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