Special Envoy to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
No, the carnival is not dead.
After its cancellation in 2021 and its postponement in April 2022, the vast majority of Brazilians celebrated the event with dignity in Rio from February 17 to 25, 2023. It is the first carnival since the return of Lula da Silva to power, after the years of populist Jair Bolsonaro's excesses.
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Following this horrible pandemic, we needed to be happy and the carnival makes us happy”
, insists Cirlène, hairdresser in Uruguaiana, in the center of Rio, still sweating, after parading at the Sambodrome, the enclosure where s exhibit the biggest samba schools in Rio.
During the carnival, the street took over.
As before the pandemic, which claimed 660,000 victims in the country, the parties take place during the day in the “blocos” with already singing names (cordão de bola preta, monobloco, etc.).
In these street parades, everyone goes wild to the rhythm of samba or baile funk (hip-hop from the favelas).
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