Worldview: Mexico Daily Life

For today’s installment of AP’s Worldview: Daily Life series, we focus on Mexico.

From volunteers hanging crosses on the US-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, to cowboys standing together at the start of Mexico City’s annual gay pride parade, to a bolt of lightning striking down over the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, our photographers capture everyday life in Mexico.  

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Volunteers from the Pro-migrant Defense Coalition hang crosses on the US-Mexico border fence as part of Day of the Dead commemorations in memory of migrants who have died trying to cross the border in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The Pro-migrant Defense Coalition hung 5,100 wooden crosses in honor of 5,100 migrants who have died crossing to the US since 1995, according to their statistics. Day of the Dead is celebrated on Nov. 2, with celebrations beginning late Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Invited guests take their seats at Fashion Week in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Karine Velazquez is lifted up by members of her court as they pose for photos on her 15th birthday, or quinceanera, at the Revolution Monument in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. The quinceanera marks a woman’s transition from childhood to adulthood and is common in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

A bolt of lightning strikes down over the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, during a thunderstorm on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

Protestors draped in a giant red cloth to represent blood, march during a demonstration in Mexico City, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Protesters marched in several cities in Mexico on Monday to mark the second anniversary of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration and demand the government find 43 students who disappeared at the hands of police. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Pico de Orizaba, or Citlaltepetl mountain, rises above the morning mist as seen from a Mexican Navy aircraft on a volcano monitoring mission in Mexico, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Pico de Orizaba is Mexico’s highest peak and the third highest in North America. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

A man walks through a building’s colonnade at the start of the work day in the historic center of Mexico City, Monday, May 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Farmer Luis Flores harvests marigolds to be sold for the “Day of the Dead” celebrations, on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. Known as “Cempasuchil” in Mexican native Nahuatl language, marigolds are purchased throughout the country each year mostly between Oct. 27 to Nov. 2 to adorn traditional Day of the Dead altars. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)

A sandbar shark swims over a walkway during a press visit to the Inbursa Aquarium in Mexico City, Friday, May 30, 2014. The Mexican magnate inaugurated the underground aquarium, one of the biggest in Latin America. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In this Oct. 19, 2014 photo, a young dancer from San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato state, wears traditional face paint as he performs outside the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The young man is part of a group of dancers that perform at the Basilica as a form of payment for a promise made to the Virgin of Guadalupe for a perceived miracle. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Journalists take pictures of an installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during a press tour of her “Infinite Obsession” exhibit, at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. The retrospective exhibit, which marks the first time Kusama’s work has been shown in Mexico, includes more than 100 of the artist’s works created between 1949 and 2013. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A young couple kisses on a bench along Paseo de la Reforma, one of Mexico City’s main boulevards, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In this Nov. 1, 2014 photo, a woman dressed as the iconic Mexican “Catrina” poses for photographers as she gathers with other women in costume in an attempt to set a record for the most Catrinas in one place during Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City. The figure of a skeleton wearing an elegant broad-brimmed hat was first done as a satirical engraving by artist Jose Guadalupe Posada sometime between 1910 and his death in 1913. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Lead singer and accordionist Jorge Hernandez of the Mexican norteno band “Los Tigres del Norte” performs at the Somos America music festival in Toluca, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Cowboys stand together at the start of Mexico City’s annual gay pride parade, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Thousands of people supporting the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders marched through the streets of central Mexico City Saturday, many waving rainbow flags or wearing intricate costumes. Gay marriage is legal within Mexico City. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Children wearing Halloween costumes peers from a car on Day of the Dead in Mexico City, Tuesday Nov. 2, 2010. Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead to honor deceased loved ones, a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on Nov. 1 and 2. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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Lead Image Caption: Protestors draped in a giant red cloth to represent blood, march during a demonstration in Mexico City, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Protesters marched in several cities in Mexico on Monday to mark the second anniversary of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration and demand the government find 43 students who disappeared at the hands of police. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

 

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