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TeleSUR celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 and continues broadening its coverage to fully showcase our peoples' cultural richness. Since 2024, Carnival celebrations in Latin America and the Caribbean have a special place in our programming. teleSUR

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00:00Tala Sur celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 and continues broadening its

00:05coverage to fully showcase our people's culture of richness. For this, since 2024,

00:10carnival celebrations in Latin America and the Caribbean have a special place in

00:14our programming. From Brazil, our correspondent Andrea Vieira tells us

00:18about his experience in covering these significant celebrations in the South

00:22American giant. I want to thank and welcome our dear correspondent

00:27Andrea Vieira, who is ready to tell us what is going to happen starting tomorrow.

00:31But let's start from the beginning to tell us first where he is. Dear Andrea,

00:35thank you for being with us. Good evening. Tell us where you are. Why Bahia and not

00:39Rio de Janeiro in this instance? What makes Bahia different?

00:49How are you, Sarai? Greetings to you and our audience. Here we are in the Northeast

00:55region, which is where I am from, one of the most joyful and colorful regions of this country,

01:01with the colors and carnivals. Here we are to show a little bit of another type of carnival,

01:06because the most famous carnival in Brazil is the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro,

01:11with the floats and samba schools, and here we are to showcase the black carnivals,

01:16a truly beautiful one. Among all the coverage I have done for Telezor, together with cameraman Sebastián Soto,

01:27the carnival was undoubtedly one of the most exciting personally and professionally.

01:32Firstly, because as a good Brazilian, my flesh is made of carnival and my heart too,

01:38as a song by . Second, because for the first time it was my turn to host a TV program,

01:45Carnival Time. Always accompanied by a singer and journalist Mariela Santiago, we took a trip to the

01:51most popular party in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our home base for the first season was

01:57Salvador de Bahia in 2024, the blackest city outside of Africa.

02:08Africa is our cradle, it is our mother, our comfort, where we reconnect, we communicate through the drums.

02:14The drums have an ancestral force, everything is super interconnected and we live it all year long.

02:19In 2025, we landed in Rio de Janeiro for the most famous carnival on earth. A total of 8 million

02:32people took part in the festivities in the city, according to the mayor's office. In addition to

02:37the Sambra Dome Carnival, there is the street carnival. I love the first one, but I participated as a

02:43musician in the second one. And this year, for the first time, I managed to parade with my group

02:48Tuesday of Carnival between one report and the next. For those of us who were born in this land,

02:54this period changes the whole routine of the cities that celebrate this party, and it changes our lives.

03:00Carnival is of European influence, but why is it so important in Brazil?

03:11The key to understand the great popularity of the Brazilian Carnival, the strength it has in the

03:17cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Salvador, São Luís do Maranhão is because it is a carnival that

03:25funds conjunction of collecting senses of life for those who were excluded by an extremely violent

03:33process that marks the formation of the Brazilian nation state.

03:38Not everything that makes up the carnival is a party. There is still a lack of public resources so

03:51that the groups, mainly the less publicized ones, can maintain the tradition beyond the five days of

03:56carnival. In addition, male chauvinism is still in force and we, the men, continue to dominate the

04:02management of the festival. But there is a struggle of many women that is changing this reality.

04:16There are many challenges. These spaces have grown a lot and mainly with the pioneers

04:20we have in the world of samba, with singers and composers such as Clara Nunez,

04:24who made this connection. But even with the juries of the samba schools in the carnival.

04:37The way women's bodies are treated, how women are objectified in the carnival.

04:45In Rio de Janeiro, we also experienced recording songs with different artists,

04:50Tsongoro Kosongo and his psychotropicality.

05:01The African heritage represented by Orumila.

05:07The mixture of styles of orchestra de beco

05:13and the power of Thais Lara's voice.

05:15Every year, our heart beats strongly for this tradition. Nothing and no one is more colorful than

05:23carnival.

05:27André Vieira y Sebastião Soto, Telesur, Brasileiro.

05:29André Vieira y Sebastião Soto, Telesur, Brasileiro.

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