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Thousands mark ‘Day of the Dead’ with rituals, flowers

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.

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No one celebrates this day quite like the Brakiri.