Ash wendnesday

From: Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu (rjapias@uol.com.br)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 16:02:37 PST


This news are specially dedicated to Barb and Jennifer.

People who organize Carnival in Bahia had develloped a particular know how on promotting such a big party like that - it happens all over downtown and in some city districts - and because of it they avoid violence and scenes of attacks to shops or markets.

All building along the streets where the blocks go ahead are prottected with big wood retangles fixed to the soil. There are a great number of chemical toillets around the dionisiac route. And a great number of same stile plastic barracks where people can sit and drink and talk.

Policewomen/men check with metal detector people who moves towards the party area and there are police points of observation along all route - each one with five policemen/women. Also, there are great number of moving groups of policemen in indian row/file along the streets.

Aside this, each block of people have a great cable around the thousands of people who go ahead together and two big cars into it (a motion stage and another truck where there are toillets, a small hospital and bars exclusive to those ones who are playing into the cable with the fantasy kit bought. The cable are carryed by hundreds of strong boys and girls.

Every morning, the streets of the dionisiac route and chemmical toillets are washed and cleaned. At lunch everything starts again and goes until the first rays of light appear.

Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu
Universidade do Estado da Bahia-Uneb
Cond. Aldeia de Trobogy
Rua B1, Bl. 49C/301
Patamares - Salvador
41680140 BAHIA
Brasil
Fone: (071) 3660923



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