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Why are the Tultepec people convinced they ‘have gunpowder in their blood’ and proudly consider themselves as the only nation to laugh at death?
Every year, the people of this Mexican town gather to celebrate the patron saint of fireworks makers, St. John of God, in a spectacular fireworks festival, which culminates in a ‘parade of bulls’- a massive structure that takes 2.5 months to make, and which is consumed in fire in five minutes!
“It’s like racing a Ferrari at 360 kph. There's no room for error,” says Antelmo, whose family has been in the dangerous business for over 200 years. Tultepec is known as the ‘capital of fireworks’, as 80% of the local economy is based on the production of fireworks.
Experience Tultepec’s dancing with fireworks at the burning of the bulls in the documentary, ‘Mexican Boom Town’.
Mexican Boom Town / 2018
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