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Disney while making Coco tried to trademark the phrase "Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)", a Mexican holiday for a centuries old sacred tradition. A trademark that also included applications pertaining to toys, cereals and jewelry.
Mexican Independence Day is known as Dia de la Independencia and is a major Mexican holiday to commemorate the "cry of independence" that took place on September 16th, 1810 when the Mexicans revolted against the Spaniards.
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Dias supervised the construction of two ships in 1494; both would be part of the first successful voyage to India traveling south around the Cape of Good Hope, led by Vasco de Gama.
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After Vasco de Gama's successful expedition, king Manuel I sent a large fleet to India under the command of Pedro Alvares Cabral.
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Dias moved to Guinea until the new king Manuel I hired him to oversee the building of the ships for Vasco de Gama's upcoming expedition.
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Mexico City's elaborate annual Dia de los Muertos parade exists because of the James Bond movie Spectre. The parade was made up for the movie, but the idea was so popular, the government decided to start doing it for real
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Disney attempted to trademark the phrase "Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead) to sell merchandise for an as of yet unreleased Pixar film. After protests by the Latin American community they backed down... claiming it was because they decided to name the film "Coco" instead.
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Alebrijes (the colorful monsters from Coco and Dia de Muertos) aren't an ancient tradition, but originated from a 1930s fever dream.
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"Dia de los Muertos" is a back-translation from English; in Mexico, it's called "Día de Muertos"
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Mexico City's government was so impressed with the Dia de muertos (day of the dead) parade scene featured in the James Bond movie "Spectre" that they've been recreating it ever since. Prior to the movie, the event did not exist.
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Dia de los muertos (Day of the dead) is on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
