Colombia’s Barranquilla Carnival begins amid musical dispute

Colombia’s biggest folk celebration returns this weekend amid a dispute with a group of musicians whose festive cumbia song “Puya a corré” the carnival used without permission. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports. 

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