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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Juliana Ton (from left to right), Maria Pech and Fabiola Cepeda perform with a dance company made up of dancers from the Mexican states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Campeche in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Their choreography is a mix of Yucatecan Maya and colonial Spanish culture.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Mexico City, Mexico

Ángel González, 19 (left), and Javier Hernández, 25, climb a tower on a pyrotechnic castle, a wooden structure used for celebrations in Mexico City. When the gunpowder lights on the castles are ignited, they create the silhouette of a brilliantly lit castle for a few minutes. “Making pyrotechnic castles is what I like to do the most,” says González, who has worked on their construction for five years.

Photo by Mar García

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

On weekends and during vacations, María Cristina Garza dresses up as a quetzal bird, which is highly prized for its beautiful feathers, and poses for photos in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. She charges tourists 20 Mexican pesos ($1) per photo. “There are very good days,” she says. “I make up to 500 pesos ($26) in tips in one afternoon.”

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Mexico City, Mexico

Eztli Ukben performs in an adaption of the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the patio and stairs of a tenement building in Mexico City. The production is part of the VSS Dance Company project “Dance in Tenements,” which aims to make dance more accessible to the general public.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

Jesús Vázquez performs for tips in his Emiliano Zapata costume on Mexico City’s Francisco I. Madero Street. He painted his costume of this 1910 Mexican Revolution leader gold, giving him a unique look that attracts pedestrians. “What I like the most is that we are on a very important street in the city,” Vázquez says. “There is culture and knowledge and many people come to learn.”

Photo by Mar García

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Guerby André, 14 (left to right), concentrates on his next move in a game of marbles with his school friends Gardy Mezil, 11, and Cherdnerson Jean, 13, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The game is popular with boys here, who often play it during school holidays.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Mexico City, Mexico

Jonathan Saucedo rests in one of the monumental letters that have been placed in the Parque de la Bombilla in southern Mexico City during a lunch break. The ‘D’ he sits in makes up part of the acronym “CDMX,” referring to the Spanish abbreviation of Mexico City. “I like these letters because you can rest easy inside them. I come to relax," Saucedo says.

Photo by Mar García

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Mairha Francois, 8, plays a hopscotch game called La Marelle with other students at the Ascension School in the Thor le Volant neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The game is one of several activities that the school organizes to celebrate the end of the school year.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

Elder Aceituno (left) and Henry Xalpot burn incense before they play a game of Mayan ball at the Antigua International School in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. The incense is offered to Mayan deities as a sign of respect, part of the game’s tradition that dates back thousands of years.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Mexico City, Mexico

Silvia Alarcón, 72 (left), and Álvaro Martínez, 73, shop for Mexican Independence Day decorations, which takes place on September 16, in Mexico City’s bustling La Merced market area. It’s a yearly tradition for the couple, who use the red, white and green decorations in the colors of the country’s flag for festive family Independence Day parties.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Sololá, Guatemala

Virginia Saminez, 13 (left), and Roxana Tuiz, 12, make altars to commemorate Guatemala’s 198th Independence Day at the MAIA Impact School near the southwestern town of Sololá, Guatemala. The altars are made of recycled materials and showcase important elements of Guatemalan identity.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Wilford Célestin has been working as an artist in the Carrefour commune of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for 18 years. He represents different loa, or spirits of the Haitian Voodoo tradition through his work, including this statue of the loa Bossou. Bossou is usually depicted as a bull with three horns.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Humacao, Puerto Rico

Eric Rodríguez, 11, fishes with his family at the Humacao Nature Reserve in Humacao, Puerto Rico. The land, previously dedicated to the cultivation of sugar cane, was designated as a conservation project in 1986.

Photo by Iris González Román

Humacao, Puerto Rico

Eddie Cruz Rodríguez, 59, has been selling “granos,” a fried dish made of ground rice, water, salt, oil and a small piece of cheese, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, for the last 42 years. He inherited the business from his parents, Bartola Rodríguez Santana and Fausto Cruz, who founded a granos factory in 1950.

Photo by Iris González Román

Mexico City, Mexico

Miguel Ángel Xochicale chops vegetables for salsa early in the morning at a taco stand in Colonia Albert, Mexico City. The taco stand is open 24 hours a day and is located outside the Portales metro stop, which keeps customers coming at all hours.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Humacao, Puerto Rico

Participants walk during Relay for Life, which took place in Humacao, Puerto Rico on May 18. Relay for Life is a community event hosted by the American Cancer Society since 1996, and now takes place in over 22 countries. During the event, participants walk or run around a track for 12 or 24 hours to raise money for the organization.

Photo by Iris González Román

Sololá, Guatemala

Anderson Gutiérrez salutes the four cardinal points, a nod to Guatemalan customs and culture, during an equestrian show in Chaquijyá, a village in Solalá, Guatemala. Gutiérrez has been riding horses alongside his father since he was a child.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Mexico City, Mexico

Zoé Rivera, 23, prepares to perform in “Esto no es sobre Baal,” a play put on by students majoring in acting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Teatrales in Mexico City as part of their professional exam. “I wanted to learn about anatomy, and in the theater I have discovered it in a very physical and very poetic way, and I think it’s a perfect match,” Rivera says.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Gloria Hidalgo removes thorns from roses before selling them in Mexico City. “I like dealing with people, giving them their bouquets to win over hearts or marriage proposals — and how sad it is when they are for funerals,” Hidalgo says.

Photo by Mar García

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Fatima Sánchez (center) and other members of Tzunūn Tēnek, a traditional dance group, perform the dance “La Iguana” in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The group is made up of local young men and women between the ages of 15 to 35 who participate to help revive the city’s traditional culture.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

Monterrey, Mexico

Adán Alejandro cleans the premises of a public park, formerly a steel and iron foundry, in Monterrey, the capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo León.

Photo by Mar García

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Aless Muñoz (left) and Isabel Araujo perform the parts of Elisa and Sara respectively in the premiere of the play “Cotton Candy” at the Patio Petul theater in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The play focuses on themes of love and hardship as the two women reminisce about their experiences while baking desserts.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Caguas, Puerto Rico

People pause to admire Edwin Vélez Camacho’s Bengal cat, Tafari, during an event in the Jardín Botánico y Cultural William Miranda Marín in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Photo by Gabriela Ortiz Díaz

Suchiapa, Chiapas, Mexico

Antonio López, 65, participates in the Dance of Calalá, part of the Corpus Cristi Festival that originated here in the Suchiapa municipality of Chiapas, Mexico. He wears traditional clothing from the town of Chamula and carries leaves from a coyol palm tree to use as offerings.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

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