Overview
- The Gran Desfile in Mexico City is scheduled for Saturday at 14:00, starting at Puerta de los Leones in Chapultepec and finishing at the Zócalo after moving along Paseo de la Reforma, Avenida Juárez and 5 de Mayo.
- This year’s parade will open with Taller El Volador’s monumental float, “Canto de sol y piedra,” featuring a Templo Mayor replica, the eagle and serpent on a nopal, and a Quetzalcóatl figure; the build took about three weeks with roughly 25 designers and will be accompanied by about 200 participants.
- Mexico City’s Secretaría de Cultura reports 414 free activities across the 16 boroughs through Nov. 2, including the Ofrenda Monumental in the Zócalo, with live broadcasts of the parade planned on Canal 14, Capital 21 and city cultural channels.
- Traditional observance places Nov. 1 for children who have died and Nov. 2 for adult faithful departed, with many families timing ofrendas and visits to cemeteries accordingly.
- In Peru, industry data point to higher spending around Halloween and Día de la Canción Criolla despite security constraints, with trade groups projecting 8–10% sales growth year over year, PedidosYa expecting up to 30% more orders, and Cabify reporting transport demand spikes that can peak severalfold on the evening of Oct. 31; in Argentina, Mendoza’s archdiocese urges Catholics to emphasize honoring saints and the dead over confronting Halloween.