The Super Bowl is Michoacan’s Avocado Fiesta par excellence

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, celebrations around this time of year center on the guacamole bowl instead of the Super Bowl. That’s because each year, the premier sporting event in the U.S. serves as the main source of income for hundreds of families south of the border who ensure that 138,000 tons of avocados […]

Michoacan’s Purepecha welcome the New Year with ‘New Fire’ ceremony

OCUMICHO, MICHOACAN — Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve — a little differently than the West’s traditional New Year. The Purepechas, who live in the western state of Michoacán, preserve the pre-Hispanic belief in the “New Fire” ceremony, a version of which was […]