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Saturday 9 February 2013

Nude Samba Time! Brazil’s Carnival Erupts In An Explosion Of Colour As Millions Thunder Through The Streets For The Start Of The Five-Day Fiesta



Brazil's Carnival celebrations opened with a bang yesterday as hundreds of thousands took to the streets to enjoy the start of the country's famous parades and street parties. 
Korean popstar Psy, whose "Gangnam Style" single with its signature dance moves has made him a global phenomenon, performed to huge crowds in Salvador, Brazil's third-biggest city, last night.
Other Brazilian and foreign celebrities, including US actress Megan Fox, are flying out to liven up the celebrations in Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere. More photos after the cut...



The five days of street parties, balls and parades traditionally shut down most of Latin America's biggest country, luring millions of locals and tourists to celebrations across the country. Rio alone is expected to attract 900,000 tourists and generate £420 million for the local economy this year.
The different carnivals, which take place in Sao Paulo, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais as well as Rio and Salvador and numerous other cities, each showcase their own type of music such as samba, samba-reggae and funk samba. Last night parades began in Sao Paulo's specially built Sambadrome, a space designed for parades.


The annual event takes place in the days leading up to Lent, the 40-day period before Easter. It began yesterday with the the mayor of Rio de Janeiro symbolically handing over the keys of the city to King Momo, the ceremonial figurehead of Brazil's best-known Carnival celebrations.
But this year's festivities are taking place under the pall of the recent nightclub fire that killed 238 people in the southern city of Santa Maria. Sixty-five others are still hospitalised.
On Thursday evening President Dilma Rousseff attended a mass in honour of the victims of the disaster at the cathedral in Brasilia, the capital.
Her press office said she would not be taking part in this year's events.
Dozens of cities, most of them near where the 27 January nightclub disaster occurred, cancelled or toned down some of their festivities. 

Hundreds of nightclubs and other venues remain closed after municipal authorities across the country moved to crack down on lax enforcement of safety codes, one of several factors that investigators say led to the tragedy in Santa Maria.
Gaudencio Torquato, a columnist writing in the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper, this week compared Brazil to a 'see-saw', a country where emotional 'highs and lows relieve each other without interruption'.
In addition, Salvador suffered a power cut on Thursday, which was caused by short circuits after revellers threw Carnival tinsel on power lines.


1 comment:

  1. Brazilian carnivals are the world's most festive parties and they never disappoint. My first Brazilian experience was back in 1983 when Lufthansa German Airlines treated its Management Trainees to a 14-day South American "familiarisation tour" to Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina. While in Rio de Janeiro, my friends and I decided to visit the strip in search of souls to save. We found many. I was, as expected, charged with the difficult responsibility of saving the temptuous ladies from sin and eternal damnation. Hours and hours of prayer meetings followed by redemptive exercises called Retreat, Night Vigil,and Midnight Devotion were performed. In the end, all the ladies saw "the light" and received salvation. Yes, their supersexXxy bodies had been burdened and heavily weighted down with NUT DEFICIT DISORDERS (NDD). That's a condition that afflicts ladies without boyfriends, husbands, or bedtime friends with benefits. Anyway, I did my job properly, for after singing sweet songs of praise by the good Rev.(Dr.) Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts----and invoking the mighty names of King Rod and Prince Banana, they all saw the "light" and self-actualized ecstatically. It has remained the least tasking assignment I've ever had. Right now, I yearn for the day my current employers would assign me to such noble duties. Well, I'm optimistic. Remember, walk not in the counsel of the ungodly; fraternize not with sinners; be not a worker of the flesh or iniquity; and by God, live in this world, but be not of this world. What do you mean you're confused?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFxDcKElSM

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