Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian Carnival spree is increasing, from the strident street parties to the dazzling parades.
Carnival began on Friday afternoon, and today marks the first full day of the festivities prior to the lens. Stay with Associated Press throughout the day, since our photographers and reporters bring you to happy madness.
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One of the popular street holidays on Saturday is Friends of the Jaguar, on a beach that looks on the other side of the water in the Sugarloaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of Juerguistas are here, all adorned with leopard and jaguar print clothes.
Marina Caetano, 39, has only lost Jaguar’s friends once in the last 11 years, because she was hospitalized, and still dreamed of verifying.
“It’s wonderful. The best street party. Energy, people, music, ”said Caetano. “I have love for this party.”
The party presents a band of saxophones, trombones and drums that are dragged by a speaker truck to spread its sound everywhere. And the choreographed dancers, “The Jaguarettes”, drag and kick playfully as great felines, with made makeup for the game.
“It is a space that allows us to express a lot of art,” said the dancer Dandara Abreu, 36. “It allows our freedom of expression.”
The Samba de Sao Paulo school parades began on Friday night, bringing thousands to the city’s sambadrome.
The best schools in the city celebrated Afro-Brazilian and indigenous traditions and honored some of the most beloved musicians in the country, including Cazuza, Tquinho and the poet Vinícius de Moraes.
The academics of the Samba do Tatuape school presented their parade about social injustice and the struggle for equal rights, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. The group of the group for the year is a famous appointment of the civil rights leader: “The injustice in any place is a threat to justice everywhere.”
The Premier Parade League parades of Sao Paulo end tonight, and the best Samba schools in Rio de Janeiro will begin on Sunday night.
– Gabriela Sá Pessoa
Also on Friday afternoon, one of the most traditional street holidays in Río, Carmelitas, seized the Bohemian neighborhood of the Santa Teresa hill.
The area is home to the Carmelitas convent, which explains the usual party attire: many of its juerguistas came dresses as nuns and priests.
Some at the party paid tribute to Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized in Rome with double pneumonia.
Mayor of Rio de Janeiro delivered on the city key To his monarch carnival on Friday, opening the symbolic five -day reign of King Momo on the festivities.
“Don’t call me. Call King Momo until he arrives on Ash Wednesday, ”said Mayor Eduardo Paes, with shorts and a Panama hat, Gevelers told Carnival Gevelers as drummers and veteran members of Samba’s local schools celebrated and sang traditional songs. “You should come for this guy. He will be in charge of the whole matter. “
Momo’s mandate is symbolic that society becomes upside down during the Carnival. His role is inspired by Greek mythology. Momus is the personification of satire, mockery and irreverence.
