Press Secretariat: The Press Secretariat says families visited and decorated graves at San Salvador's General Cemetery

Thousands of Salvadorans decorate their loved ones' graves with flowers on All Souls' Day

Cemeteries across the country received thousands of people on Monday, November 2, who came to clean, paint and lay flowers on their relatives' graves, according to La Página, Co Latino and Diario1. Co Latino reports that the cemeteries were open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and that the San Salvador Centro mayor's office expected to serve more than 70,000 visitors; at La Bermeja there were dozens of stalls selling handmade flowers. At the old cemetery in Soyapango, artificial flowers prevailed amid the mayors' offices' restrictions on bringing in certain products, and some vendors said sales were low, according to Diario1, which cites grave cleaning and painting services starting at $3. The PNC and the Armed Forces said they kept security deployments at cemeteries across the country.