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Mexico City Reports 13 Million Pilgrims for Guadalupe Feast at the Basilica

A massive safety operation kept the celebration largely incident-free.

Overview

  • Mexico City’s Secretariat of Government said attendance reached about 13 million by 5 a.m. on December 12.
  • The Operativo Basílica deployed 5,050 police, and medical teams reported 3,441 attentions inside the atrium and 2,476 outside, with only eight transfers to hospitals.
  • Locatel recorded 58 missing-person reports during the festivities, with six cases still active by late Friday.
  • The basilica’s program included the traditional midnight Mañanitas and the noon Misa de las Rosas presided by Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes.
  • Television and streaming carried the rites nationwide, with Televisa’s Mañanitas featuring artists such as Lucero and Carlos Rivera and Univision/ViX airing live coverage.