Overview
- Univision will air Las Mañanitas live in the U.S., also on ViX, starting Thursday, Dec. 11 at 11:30 p.m. ET with hosts Raúl González and María Antonieta Collins.
- Mexican outlets report vast turnout this year, with Azteca citing expectations of more than 13 million pilgrims at the Basílica de Guadalupe.
- The Basílica program lists established performers accompanied by Mariachi Gama Mil, including Aída Cuevas, Daniela Romo, Carlos Rivera, Lucero Mijares, Víctor García, Ana Cirré and Alex Fernández.
- U.S. observances span major sites such as Des Plaines, Los Angeles and New York, where St. Patrick’s Cathedral plans Mañanitas, a procession and Mass led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
- Cultural coverage revisits the Mañanitas origin in a 1955 on‑air improvisation and notes that the popular La Guadalupana is widely attributed to Manuel Esperón and Ernesto Cortázar, with earlier sources crediting Jesuit Saturnino Junquera.