Murgas and groups from Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Bolivia were invited by the Government of Argentina to participate in the celebrations of carnivals that next February will be held in the main street of Buenos Aires, officials said.
Carnaval de Argentina
The parade to be held between 25 and 27 February in Buenos Aires 9 de Julio Avenue will become part of the cycle of “federal carnival of joy”, which covers 19 of the 23 provinces of this country.
The activities within the nation will be 20 and February 21, coinciding with the festive carnival restored by the Peronist government of Cristina Fernández after the ban ordered by the last military dictatorship (1976-1983).
There, highlight the Carnivals of Gualeguaychu in the province of Entre Ríos and bordering Uruguay and Corrientes, next to Paraguay and Brazil, who come every year tens of thousands of tourists.
In Buenos Aires, the organizers opted for the central Avenida 9 de Julio, which was crowded with visitors during the celebrations organized by the Government in 2010 to complete 200 years of the revolution that ushered in the country’s independence.
The carnivals, enacted in November 2010 by Fernandez, were received last year by 65 murgas municipalities throughout the country, which was fired domestic tourism, as proposed by the Government, in addition to claiming the celebrations of “King Momo” closed at the beginning of military rule.
Carnival holidays were banned on June 6, 1976 by President and General Jorge Videla, now sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and prosecuted for stealing babies of disappeared at the hands of the repression unleashed by the dictatorship .
