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La Catrina is a ubiquitous character associated with Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos), both in Mexico and around the world. Additionally, it has become an icon of Mexican identity, sometimes used in opposition to the Halloween Jack-o'-lantern. [1]
In January 2020, senior CJNG hitwoman María Guadalupe López Esquive, alias "La Catrina" died following a shootout with police. [168] [169] López, also known as "Dame of Death", was suspected of being the CJNG leader in Mexico's Tierra Caliente region. [168]
Posada's La Calavera Catrina.. Posada was born in Aguascalientes on 2 February 1852. [1] [2] His father was Germán Posada Serna and his mother was Petra Aguilar Portillo.. Posada was one of eight children and received his early education from his older brother Cirilo, a country school t
Zenaida Estrada sits patiently as she gets her face painted as a Catrina by Daniella Briones at Briones’ home before attending the Dia de los Muertos festival at the Mattie Rhodes Center on ...
Catrina figures made of a wide range of materials, as well as people with Catrina costumes, have come to play a prominent role in modern Day of the Dead observances in Mexico and elsewhere. The Catrina phenomenon has in fact gone beyond Day of the Dead, resulting in non-seasonal and even permanent "Catrinas", including COVID-19 masks, tattoos ...
Maria Guadalupe Lopez Esquival "La Catrina", 21, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in Tepalcatepec, Michoacan was killed in a gun battle with state and federal security forces in the area in January 2020. [1]
Juan Coronilla-Guerrero's wife feared her husband's deportation to Mexico would be a death sentence, and she turned out to be right.
A calaca of La Calavera Catrina. A calaca (Spanish pronunciation:, a colloquial Mexican Spanish name for skeleton) is a figure of a skull or skeleton (usually human) commonly used for decoration during the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, although they are made all year round.