In Mexico, piñatas are not just child's play. They're a 400-year-old tradition
María de Lourdes Ortiz Zacarías swiftly cuts hundreds of strips of newsprint and colored crepe paper needed to make a piñata, soothed by Norteño music on the radio while measuring pieces by feel.
“The measurement is already in my fingers,” Ortiz Zacarías says with a laugh.
She has been doing this since she was a child, in the family-run business alongside her late mother, who
