Reading: Latin American Folktales by John Bierhorst
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| Opening procession |
Here’s a Latin American riddle for you:
Monte blanco,
Flores negras,
Un arado,
Y cinco yeguas.
White mountains,
Black flowers,
One plow,
Five horses.
Paccha and the Canton of Atahualpa have spent the last three weeks celebrating their founding with a series of
fiestas. The drawn out affair started out with a
pregón dedicating the new coliseum to the
canton (equivalent to a county) that involved dancing until all hours of the morning to a Maná cover band. This precursor gave way to a series of
fiestas throughout the canton cumulating last weekend in Paccha with several more dances, including the beloved and gratuitous street dance. Let it be noted that Atahualpa is the only place in this country that I have encountered where it seems that Club beer is preferred to the national staple of Pilsner.
Pacchenses like to keep it classy with personal 12ozers, a novel practice in this country.
