Halloween may be behind us, but in Mexico and parts of the US Latino community the macabre All-Saints goings-on have carried through to today, the second and last day of Día de los Muertos.

There seems to have been a choice of two topics in the travel stories published this weekend: creepy, Halloween-themed tales, or serious newspapers (the WaPo, the NYT) trying a fresh take on the been-there, done-that subject of the Caribbean.