Uruguay claims to have the world’s longest Carnival celebration. It goes on for 40 days or more, and it’s structured as an outdoors theater festival, with performances of a very distinct choral music called Murga. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports that Murga is an important form of social and political critique for Uruguayans that survived a brutal military dictatorship.
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