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From Venezuela, we learn this fascinating tidbit:\u00a0 The descendants of African slaves donned masks and bright red costumes as they danced through the streets of this small Venezuelan town on Thursday for its annual commemoration of Corpus Cristi. [sic] Young men beat drums and shook maracas as the \u201cdevils\u201d paraded through the streets and people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[265,11178,11182],"class_list":["post-23606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-moments-in-journalism","tag-corpus-christi","tag-journalism","tag-media"],"yoast_head":"\n
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