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2009-12-25

2009 will go up in smoke on New Years

One of the most popular New Year traditions in Panama is to prepare effigies of well-known people, popular television celebrities or political figures like Betty La Fea or Fidel Castro and burn them on New Year's bonfires.

These dummies, known as New Year's muñecos, represent the old year and they are burnt to drive off the evil spirits along with the old year.

The pictures on this page are muñecos we saw today, Christmas Day, on the side of the road near here in San Carlos, Panama.

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