The posada must go on: Mexico celebrates Christmas against backdrop of COVID Posadas traditionally bring people into the streets and into the homes of neighbors across Mexico and in other parts of Latin America over the course of nine nights. View of typical Pinatas for sale in a market at Xochimilco, Mexico City, on December 15, 2020. Picture: AFP.
XOCHIMILCO, Mexico - In Yuridia Torres workshop, the sale of pinatas is nonstop.
Despite the Mexican government s warning against traditional posadas celebrations which began Wednesday and play a huge role in the country s Christmas season people in the capital s Xochimilco neighborhood continued to buy the festive party item.
Despite the Mexican government s warning against traditional posadas - celebrations which began Wednesday and play a huge role in the country s Christmas season - people in the capital s Xochimilco neighborhood continued to buy the festive party item.
Posadas traditionally bring people into the streets and into the homes of neighbors across Mexico and in other parts of Latin America over the course of nine nights.
The holiday custom involves going door-to-door singing Christmas carols, sometimes dressed as characters from the biblical Christmas story.
Even with a spike in coronavirus infections and hospital occupancy at 82 percent in Mexico City, orders for pinatas are still coming in.
Thursday, 17 Dec 2020 10:16 AM MYT
View of typical Pinatas for sale in a market at Xochimilco, Mexico City December 15, 2020. AFP pic
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XOCHIMILCO, Dec 17 In Yuridia Torres’ workshop, the sale of pinatas is nonstop.
Despite the Mexican government’s warning against traditional posadas celebrations which began yesterday and play a huge role in the country’s Christmas season people in the capital’s Xochimilco neighbourhood continued to buy the festive party item.
Posadas traditionally bring people into the streets and into the homes of neighbours across Mexico and in other parts of Latin America over the course of nine nights.