Calaveritas are short verses written for the Day of the Dead. In 2017, a secretariat of the national executive committee of the PRD, the Party of the Democratic Revolution, held a literary contest called Calaveritas políticas 2017, political skulls. Entries had to be political verses of “diez o doce estrofas de cuatro versos” (ten or twelve stanzas of four lines), and they could refer to political figures.
The jury judged creativity, originality, humor and rhyme. The prizes were 3,000, 2,000 and 1,000 pesos.