Some non-Mexican sites for D a de los muertos 3. The peripatetic travel writer Arthur Frommer recently passed along a tip for those seeking good deals on flights to Mexico. Departure dates are usually between one and two weeks in advance. The Day of the Dead sites listed in SOL 38 is an admittedly Mexi-centric list, even though the celebration is important in many other countries. The vast majority of D a de los muertos material on the Web focuses on Mexico, in part because of that nation's proximity to the U.S., and also because the artist whose work is emblematic of the holiday, engraver Jos Guadalupe Posada, was born in Aguascalientes and worked in Mexico City.
Sites focusing on other parts of the world are hard to find.
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso is a family-owned publishing house that has steadily built up a magnificent catalog of works dealing with the border, the American Southwest, and Mexico. Cinco Puntos has recently released books by several of Flaco's favorites. The award-winning 1986 Paco Ignacio Taibo II novel De paso is finally out in translation as Just Passing Through .