San Miguel’s Night of the Catrinas [] Robert J. Hawkins

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  • Not quite a parade, definitely a promenade

    Published November 2, 2023

    by Robert J. Hawkins

    Gaily costumed and made-up men and women just sort of filtered into the plaza last night in twos and fours. If there was a grand parade from any of the private Catrina parties around San Miguel de Allende, it was after I left.

    By 8 p.m., I’d seen enough. And what I saw was delightful.

    There were lots of traditional Catrinas and Catrines but there were spinoffs, too. Like the two cowboys, the bishop, the woman in the illuminated cape, and the tyrannosaurus rex. Yes, a dinosaur. It is just that kind of year.

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