MEXICO. Cochoapa el Grande, Guererro. 2024. Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday where family members gather to remember their deceased loved ones. It is a day to pay respect, to celebrate life, not mourn death, and to welcome back their spirits in a violent and poor province where most towns are run by drug cartels. Cochoapa, with its Misteco Indian population of 18,000, is the poorest municipality in all of Mexico.