Ap Photos: Pinata-making Art Lives On In Mexican Family

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican party isn't complete without a piñata, and Melesio Vicente Flores and Cecilia Albarran Gonzalez have spent the last 25 years making high-end versions of the papier-mache figures to later be stuffed with candies and broken open with a stick or club. At their four-story house built into a hillside on the east side of Mexico's sprawling capital, the Vicente-Albarran family fashions cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse for children's birthdays, or caricatures of despised politicians for protests. On the rooftop of their shared home, Luna covers cement molds in the shapes of body parts with newspaper and lays them out to dry. Characters from the Disney hit "Frozen" currently appear to be top sellers in local markets, and Albarran says "princesses never go out of fashion."  Gerardo Moreno Alejo, who sells pinatas at La Merced, one of Mexico City's biggest markets, says university students requested pinatas of President Enrique Pena Nieto late last year amid anger over the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college.

 

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