Day of the Dead expanding in U.S.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Growing up in South Texas, Kiko Torres saw the Day of the Dead as an obscure holiday celebrated in southern Mexico. Few people dared to discuss it in his small but strong Catholic, Mexican-American community.

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