JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Ramon Corral brought his family back to the border after spending more than three decades as a trucker in Chicago.
“It was always too cold,” the retired resident of El Paso, Texas, said.
But then tragedy struck. His son Jose Manuel and his Juarez wife moved to Mexico and were murdered here a few years ago. Since then, Corral has visited his son’s grave every two to three months.
He makes sure the grave has new plastic flowers and has placed a portrait of his son atop the tombstone. He planted a baby mulberry next to the grave this week “so he can get some shade.”
These Día de Los Muertos items are not allowed into US ports of entry
The love people of Mexican descent keep for their departed ones and the feeling that “they are still there” in spirit fuels the Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) tradition.
City of Juarez officials are deploying extra sanitation crews and security in anticipation of thousands visiting places like Panteon Tepeyac, Recinto de la Oracion, San Rafael and the 19th-century municipal cemetery in the heart of the iconic Chaveña neighborhood on or about November 2.