Monigote displays in Cuenca, Ecuador

            To celebrate the old  year's passages, Cuenca residents create effigies  to represent the bad things in their lives. The doll-like figures can be huge.  Clothed and stuffed with fireworks and paper, the effigies are burned in the street at midnight, to insure good luck in the upcoming year.

Many neighborhoods close down streets and create their own display.  Most displays have a political theme to them.  Here is an example of one of them.  This one is a commentary on the upcoming presidential race.  The current president is in the lead.

All the displays will be burned at midnight.  

Technically, the celebration is called "Anos Viejos" (Old Year).

Taken New Year's Eve, 2012

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Taken on: December 31, 2012

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Sets appears in: • Cuenca, Ecuador

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