#LearnWithMOLAA featuring: The Cempasúchil Flower

How long has the Cempasúchil flower, or marigold, been a part of Day of the Dead traditions?

In MOLAA’s recent series of educational videos on Day of the Dead, correspondent Jessie Salgado Delgado asked cempasúchil grower Luis Victoria Guillermo what the tradition means to him. For Guillermo, like many others, it is a way to honor loved ones who are no longer with us – a way to always keep them in our hearts. As the most recent in a long line of farmers to grow cempasúchil going back thousands of years, Guillermo’s practice is part of the tradition of the Pueblo, or Mexican people. And as he explains, this practice also extends throughout Latin America in places such as Guatemala, Peru, and even Bolivia.

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