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An Indigenous family smokes tobacco as part of a ritual in honor of folk saint Maximon, a fictitious Indigenous person who is a syncretism of a Mayan and Saint Judas Thaddeus, on the feast day of both men outside the Maximon chapel in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. For the second year in a row, the celebration has been reduced amid restrictions to help curb the spread of the COVID-19. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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