Uruguay claims to have the world’s longest Carnival celebration. It goes on for 40 days, and structured as an outdoors theatre festival, with performances of a very distinct choral music called Murga. The World’s Tibisay Zea’s report from last year looks at how Murga is an important form of social and political critique for Uruguayans, a country that survived a brutal military dictatorship.
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