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Old 02-28-2001, 01:05 PM
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Default Un exito Carnaval ayer en Santiago

El carnaval de Santiago ayer fue el más atractivo de los últimos trece años, a juicio de Poppy Bermúdez, uno de los jurados que premio los ganadores, y empresario que por muchos años apoyó económicamente el proceso de rescate del interés popular por la fiesta.

Hasta la muerte de Trujillo, el Carnaval elite y de pueblo en Santiago fue el mejor del país, pero ambos cayeron en un proceso de extinción, sin llegar a desaparecer totalmente por el soporte económico de la empresa licorera Bermúdez, que a la sazón dirigía Poppy.

El rescate del interés de los santiagueros por su carnaval se inicio cuando Lila Balcacer de Estrella formó un grupo de municipios para rescatar las tradiciones, en el que participaron inicialmente Milton Fernández, Orlando Pichardo, Abelardo Viñas y otros ya desaparecidos.

Una segunda generación del comité privado fue lidereada por Manuel Ulises Bonnelly, donde participaron también José Ramón Holguin, Haime Thomas Frías, Violeta Hidalgo Damarys Aybar y otros, que dejaron de laborar por el carnaval a inicios del gobierno de Leonel Fernández R.

El esfuerzo de ambos grupos logro que prendiera nueva vez en los barrios de Santiago el interés por el carnaval, llama que impregno además a los demás carnavales elitistas y populares del país.

Bonnelly cree el nuestro es el único que posee el germen para elevar su calidad y convertirse en líder de América Latina “pero solo será posible cuando tengamos un ente estatal que se interese por el desarrollo de esa actividad que podría atraer millares de turistas cada años.

Otro carnaval no oficial se hara en Santiago en marzo 3
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Old 02-28-2001, 01:34 PM
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Default Re: Un exito Carnaval ayer en Santiago

¡Entonces perdí realmente algo! ¡Estaba en Santiago en el diciembre y en yo amó ese pueblo! Puedo imaginarme que cuán magnífico tal carnaval debe hacer al pueblo pero ahora yo me siento en el otro lado del globo allí es extremadamente frío y nieva. ¡Horrible...!
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Old 02-28-2001, 02:45 PM
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Default Estuve en Santiago ayer: ¡Bravo!

Me pareció mucho mejor que el carnaval vegano.
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Old 02-28-2001, 04:10 PM
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Default Re: Estuve en Santiago ayer: ¡Bravo!

Are you sure you are not from Santiago? ( I am!) I am so relieved that you have come out and said it because I did not want to be the dissonant voice on this (for many) obscure subject. I have been going every year for about 4 years and I was starting to get my feathers a little ruffled about all the fanfare concerning the La Vega carnival. I think La Vega was probably instrumental in making Santiago revive their carnival with a bit of competitive zest. I think it is great for the whole region. I am secretly basking in Santiago pride back here in the US. I hope more people come and visit Santiago on the last Sunday in February. See you next year.
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Old 03-01-2001, 03:32 AM
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Default why I thought Santiago was better

No not from Santiago. On the contrary, I've been in the DR for almost a year now and until yesterday had only been in Santiago in order to get to Puerto Plata.

Obviously there are pros and cons, but Santiago by far has the better Carnival:

1) Greater variety of costumes, floats & dances
2) A more beautiful setting (hard to beat standing on the hill where the monument is watching the sun set and the tail end of the paraders)
3) The dances (and Carnival itself) felt a lot more authentic.

I had a lot of fun in La Vega, but the carnaval vegano seemed over comercialized and essentially a bunch of testosterone-mad guys in (admittedly very cool) devil costums running around. There was little of intricate dances that there were in Santiago: for example the "devils" with the large whips.

Santiago had some very, very interesting floats/costumes: men in coffins surrounded by the dead, the gangsters that are deported from New York, the "Haitian" being lead by the police, etc In short a wealth of folklore that was absent in La Vega. I would have loved to have an anthropologist by my side to explain the meaning behind many of the paraders I saw.

Finally, when the devils smack in you in La Vega it really hurts (I saw more than a few women/children crying afterwards) whereas in Santiago it was pleasant (and there were women smacking you, not just men!)
 

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