A woman arranges offerings in front of images, including portraits of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Argentine Ernesto "Che" Guevara, during All Saints' Day celebrations in La Paz, November 1, 2013. Traditionally, indigenous Bolivians celebrate All Saints Day by paying homage to their dead ones with a feast of home-baked, doll-shaped breads, fresh fruit and coca leaves and flowers. The syncretism practiced by the Aymaras, a blend of Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, calls for the offerings to be neatly placed on top of graves, and then to give them away to beggars, who in exchange say prayers f

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A woman arranges offerings in front of images, including portraits of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Argentine Ernesto "Che" Guevara, during All Saints' Day celebrations in La Paz, November 1, 2013. Traditionally, indigenous Bolivians celebrate All Saints Day by paying homage to their dead ones with a feast of home-baked, doll-shaped breads, fresh fruit and coca leaves and flowers. The syncretism practiced by the Aymaras, a blend of Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, calls for the offerings to be neatly placed on top of graves, and then to give them away to beggars, who in exchange say prayers for the souls of the dead ones. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION SOCIETY)