Friday night warm up

El Carnaval de Oruro

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March 1st 2009
My memories of Oruro Carnival are a wonderful blur of colourful costumes adorned with sequins, water bombs, climbing up and down between narrow wooden planks and chants of “Diablo, Diablo!” Carnival is celebrated across Bolivia but is best in Oruro given that it is Bolivia’s biggest annual cultural event. It’s pretty much a week long party of heavy drinking and water balloons. The carni ... read more

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more