Mexican families visit graves at the cemetery and take part in the Day of the Dead celebration on November 2, 2025, in San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico.
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As night falls over the cemetery in San Andrés Mixquic, a historic village on the outskirts of Mexico City, the family of Ángel Jiménez del Águila huddles around his grave.

“Salucita for our dead,” says Jesús, one of Ángel’s sons, raising a toast to his father, who died in 2010.