by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 29, 2026 | Blog, Culture and Holidays
What Mexicans Say When Someone Dies The simplest thing to say is “lo siento mucho” (I’m so sorry). The more formal version is “mi más sentido pésame” (my deepest condolences). Between those two there are a few other phrases you will hear...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 18, 2026 | Blog, Culture and Holidays
Las Posadas are the nine nights of gatherings held in Mexico from December 16 to 24. So what are las posadas, exactly? The word posada means lodging, and the tradition remembers Mary and Joseph going door to door asking for a place to stay. Today most posadas are...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 16, 2026 | Blog, Culture and Holidays
How do you say Veterans Day in Spanish? It is Día de los Veteranos, and in Mexico November has its own national holiday: el Día de la Revolución, on November 20. If you live between the United States and Mexico, or just talk to people in both, these are the two...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 16, 2026 | Blog, Culture and Holidays
An ofrenda is the altar Mexican families set up for Día de Muertos to welcome back the souls of their dead. The word means “offering.” A typical ofrenda holds a photo of the person, candles, water, salt, cempasúchil flowers, copal, papel picado, pan de...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 14, 2026 | Blog, Culture and Holidays
Día de Muertos and Halloween are different holidays that happen to fall days apart. Halloween, on October 31, grew out of the Celtic festival Samhain and plays with fear: costumes, candy and scares. Día de Muertos, mainly November 1 and 2, blends Indigenous and...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 13, 2026 | Blog, Culture and Holidays
Cempasúchil (sem-pah-SOO-cheel) is the orange Mexican marigold, Tagetes erecta, that fills altars and graves on Día de Muertos. The name comes from the Nahuatl cempohualxóchitl, “twenty flowers.” Its color is said to stand for the sun and its scent to...
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