Every year, in the Costa Rican village of Boruca, men dress in garish masks and costumes to reenact their ancestors’ battle against colonizers 500 years ago. In the ritual, Spaniards, are depicted as bulls, while the Borucans depict themselves as devils, to reclaim a slur the Spanish once used against them. Jamie Fullerton has the story from Boruca.
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