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- Rio Grande Valley, Texas – Leaning over plates of tamales, pan dulce, and sugar skulls, community organisers and local residents in the border city of Brownsville remembered the dead.
- This year’s Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, vigil honoured victims of state violence, including those killed in immigration enforcement and detention.
- Just days before the US midterm election on November 3, the event reverberated in a region long subject to Washington, DC’s shifting political winds.
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- Rio Grande Valley, Texas – Leaning over plates of tamales, pan dulce, and sugar skulls, community organisers and local residents in the border city of Brownsville remembered the dead.
- This year’s Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, vigil honoured victims of state violence, including those killed in immigration enforcement and detention.
- Just days before the US midterm election on November 3, the event reverberated in a region long subject to Washington, DC’s shifting political winds.
Sources: Al Jazeera